Africa baobabs are distinctive, long-lived trees with essential ecosystem roles. However, their populations are in decline ...

Baobabs are the most iconic trees on the savannah; and also the longest-lived. Its size is so impressive that its hollow stem can measure more than 20 meters in diameter and can store up to 120 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Social media users are sharing images of an otherworldly looking bar said to be located inside an ancient tree. While the pub was once open to the public, the widely shared post fails to mention that ...

Since childhood, Loveness Bhitoni has collected fruit from the gigantic baobab trees surrounding her homestead in Zimbabwe to add variety to the family’s staple corn and millet diet. The 50-year-old ...

The African Baobab tree has a reputation for being one of the largest and oldest trees on the continent. These trees sport iconic girthy trunks with widths tantamount to the length of an automobile, ...

This story was originally reported by Edward McAllister, Editing by Anna Willard for the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Until recently baobabs were only tapped for local use but in a major business shift ...

Some of the oldest and biggest baobab trees in Africa have died recently, becoming the latest possible victims of climate change, according to a study published in the journal Nature Plants on Monday.