Concerns about the impacts of invasive species is not new; it dates to the 19th century. The term was popularized in Charles Elton's 1958 book "The Ecology of Invasions by Animals and Plants". However ...

In South Africa’s Limpopo province, a baobab tree once grew so large and stood so strong that its human neighbors decided to do the obvious: They built a pub inside the living tree’s thousand ...

More than two-thirds of South Africa’s 20,400 plant species are found nowhere else in the world, said Karen Esler, a distinguished professor of conservation at Stellenbosch University.

A researcher followed up on a study warning that the massive trees were in danger, ... South Africa, in 2018. It split in 2009 into several stout parts low to the ground.

The recent welcoming of Afrikaner refugees is the latest chapter in a history of U.S. support for white South Africans.

Climate change is not new for millennial trees. Baobabs are originally from Africa, where they occur in 32 countries.. It is well-known that baobabs reach extraordinary old ages. Radio-carbon ...

And in a visual analysis carried out in May at the request of Yale Environment 360, he used sample satellite images to estimate that there are about 1.4 billion trees on farms across sub-Saharan ...

Africa’s timeless trees are thriving Focus Tuesday, 22 Oct 2024 A photo ... South Africa, which collapsed in 2016. — ©2024 The New York Times Company.

Back in sapphire-skied Cape Town, the “Mother City” of South Africa, you’ll enjoy one final overnight stay on your voyage—visiting its crowning jewels like the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden ...

Officials are reporting the deaths of six high school students in South Africa’s Eastern Cape region this week after their ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The death toll in floods in South Africa ... Six students on the bus were confirmed dead, while three were rescued after clinging onto trees and calling out for help, ...