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, the ...
Popular Science: Scientists wanted to understand how baobab trees live for thousands of years. Then the ancient trees started dying.
Scientists wanted to understand how baobab trees live for thousands of years. Then the ancient trees started dying.
Orange County Register: Learning more about the ‘tree of life,’ the baobab
Calling something the “tree of life” may conjure up a lush arboreal species with mouth-watering fruit. Yet on the African continent, this moniker is reserved for the baobab tree. Upon first glance, ...
The Guardian: ‘The soul of the city’: can Kinshasa’s last remaining baobab tree be saved?
Across Africa, baobabs have rich symbolic meaning, but the breakneck expansion of the DRC’s capital has reduced their number in the city centre to one The older inhabitants of Kinshasa can remember ...
‘The soul of the city’: can Kinshasa’s last remaining baobab tree be saved?
KERA News: This week in science: baobab trees, lizard-inspired building and stretching eyeballs
The baobab (Adansonia) is a genus of trees with eight extant (in existence currently) species and a long history of humans marveling at them. For as much admiration the baobabs get, there is an equal ...
Phys.org: Zanzibar's baobab trees used to be a valued part of society—drone images help prove it
Baobab trees may be a proxy for measuring long-term use of land by humans. They live long, have economic benefits, and are used as shrines and markers on landscapes. Archaeologists have long suspected ...