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In Tanzania's Udzungwa Mountains, scientists have identified Tessmannia princeps, a newly discovered tree species potentially ...
When the government of Sri Lanka published the  National Red List of threatened plants in 2020, my eyebrows shot up. We’ve ...
They don't often let me go to the supermarket unless it’s just to get a newspaper or a bag of ice, because I always end up ...
Eva's Coffee Africa is leading in the campaign to attract youth and women into coffee farming and has come up with innovative ways to get the youth interested in coffee farming.
As the world marks the International Day of Plant Health, African countries have come together to discuss environmentally friendly ways to protect fruit and vegetable harvests from insect pests.
A towering 9.5-foot-tall African spinach has been discovered in Ikoro-Ekiti, a town in Ekiti State. The plant, locally known as Efo Tete, and possibly the tallest ever recorded in Africa, has ...
Global demand for Southern Africa’s unique succulent plants is fuelling an illegal trade that threatens them with extinction. Between 2019 and May 2024, more than 1.6 million illegally harvested ...
South Africa allowed eight coal-fired plants run by state-owned Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. to breach emission rules in an attempt to help the cash-strapped utility focus resources on providing a ...
Scientists hope hungry black weevils imported from Louisiana can help tackle South Africa's invasive water plant problem.
Scientists hope hungry weevils from Louisiana can tackle South Africa's invasive water plants South Africa is unleashing weevils imported from the United States in a bid to fight off the sprouting ...
HARTBEESPOORT, South Africa (AP) — Dozens of tiny black weevils cling onto a fern plant as it is tossed onto a leafy green mat coating the surface of South Africa's Crocodile River.