Some baobab trees are used as houses, grain warehouses or animal shelters. The baobab tree is divided into eight different species, six of which are native to Madagascar and Africa.

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 ...

Dr. Venter traveled around Southern Africa to survey the health of adult baobab trees of all sizes. She found a normal distribution of individuals, and no signs of out-of-the-ordinary disease or ...

A new study has concluded that, trees across the semi-arid sub-Saharan Africa store less carbon than some models previously predicted. An inventory of 9.9 billion trees derived from more than ...