The cannabis plant is incredibly diverse, and much of this variety stems from its two primary subspecies: sativa strains and indica strains. These two types of cannabis are often referenced when ...

Dominique Prinsloo, a lead researcher for Traffic, says “the allure of rare and exotic succulents” has exerted huge pressure, especially on wild populations from South Africa, leading to unsustainable ...

Climate change is an urgent global reality, disproportionately impacting vulnerable nations. Bangladesh, Haiti, Pakistan, and the Philippines are among the top ten countries facing severe risks from ...

They can destroy well-built homes, uproot trees ... and Zimbabwe. In 2023, Cyclone Freddy caused storms for a month, killing more than 1,000 people in East Africa. Freddy remained a tropical ...

Tippi Hedren, who starred in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, was inspired by Gorongosa's lions to build her own exotic cat preserve ... along the main road linking Zimbabwe to Mozambique's port ...

Carved out of a tree trunk, and barely wide enough to accommodate ... continent plagued by illegal animal killing. The killing in Zimbabwe of a protected lion named Cecil by a U.S. trophy hunter ...

Lightning strikes may kill hundreds of millions of trees every year, but one tropical tree has evolved to benefit from the ...

One species of tropical tree seems not only to survive lightning strikes but also to thrive because of them Being struck by ...

Though being struck by lightning is usually bad, the tropical tree Dipteryx oleifera benefits. A strike kills other nearby trees and parasitic vines.

How some tropical trees benefit from being struck by lightning: evidence for Dipteryx oleifera and other large-statured trees. New Phytologist , 2025 DOI: 10.1111/nph.70062 Cite This Page : ...