De Beers has launched the second chapter of its Essence of Nature High Jewellery collection. The first chapter was unveiled ...

Mark Dimmitt, a flower expert and retired director of natural history at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, said that foothills palo verde trees “flower in most years on deeper soils and ...

Botanists are stunned by the reappearance of Heterostemma brownii, a rare plant not seen for 113 years, in Thailand's ...

Chinese and African researchers have recently uncovered evolutionary insights about baobab trees that suggest the iconic trees' conservation status needs to be revised. There are eight species of ...

Fortunately trees - such as this baobab - have adapted so that it can grow up to 25m tall and live for thousands of years. The Sunland Baobab in South Africa is thought to be 6000 years old!