Baobab trees — ancient, otherworldly behemoths with bulbous trunks that splinter into a constellation of spindly branches — are some of Africa's most iconic living things. Until late last year ...

Africa’s baobab trees can live for more than 1,000 years, but many of the oldest and largest are dying. Ancient baobab trees are silhouetted at against the Madagascan sunset near Morondava.

Africa’s iconic baobab trees are dying, and scientists don’t know why. In a study intended to examine why the trees are so long-living, researchers made the unexpected finding that many of the ...

Nine of Africa's 13 largest and oldest baobabs have suddenly collapsed and died, likely due to climate change, say scientists who study these ancient and iconic trees ...

Stunning Photos of Africa’s Oldest Trees, Framed by Starlight “Diamond Nights” captures the surreal beauty of ancient trees after nightfall. Melissa Wiley. June 25, 2015. Get our newsletter!

Baobab trees — an icon of the African continent and the heart of many traditional African remedies and folklore — are dying across the continent, and scientists are trying to understand why. A ...

Driving beyond South Africa’s Limpopo province, into the village of Chivadini, people and grassland are scarce. But the oldest living organisms in Africa – baobab trees – are abundant. These ...

How these trees then reached continental Africa and Australia is still unclear. In the past, some have proposed that baobab fruits may have been carried by ocean currents and, in the case of ...

The trees are featured in cultural traditions across Africa, and they also support the livelihoods of thousands of people who harvest baobab fruit. And across mainland Africa, a researcher has ...

Some of the trees are 10 ft. to 12 ft. tall, and though it’s not exactly a forest, it’s certainly not barren land either. El Haji Gouebiaby, Base Chief for the Great Green Wall, stands beside ...

Previous studies have shown that Africa’s tropical forests store more carbon per hectare than Amazonian forests. But how they do so is still a puzzle. It turns out that elephants play an ...