Socotra Island, known as the Galápagos of the Indian Ocean, hosts an unusual diversity of plants found nowhere else on Earth. Nine of these endemic plant species, belonging to the genus Boswellia, are ...

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The large leaves of the aguaje, a tropical palm tree that grows in the peatlands and other seasonal wetland areas in tropical ...

The government has made tremendous progress towards the target of growing at least 15 billion trees by 2032 under the ...

According to Bruwer, there are parallel legal and illegal markets for succulents that at times overlap. The legal market, she ...

Political instability and potential violence could threaten Zimbabwe in the coming twelve to eighteen months. Zimbabwe's ninety-one-year-old president, Robert Mugabe, has no clear succession plan ...

Johannes has a MSci in Neuroscience from King’s College London and serves as the Managing Director at IFLScience.

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Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Tuesday appointed the country's army chief as sports minister. A statement from the presidency Tuesday said Anselem Sanyatwe had been retired and ...

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Credit: Evan Gora / Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies Some trees don’t just survive lightning – they thrive on it. Scientists studying Panama’s tropical forests have discovered that Dipteryx ...