Today is World Environment Day. Everyone’s talking about protecting the environment — about the ozone layer, air pollution, ...

The real threat to the city’s palm-lined avenues is disease: lethal bronzing and lethal yellowing, said Horticulture ...

This unusual fruit features a lychee-like skin, rambutan-like translucent flesh, and a small size. Found in An Giang’s ...

A palm isn’t necessarily a tree and a coconut isn’t necessarily a nut. Botanically the fruit is a drupe, not a nut. The palm tree has been cultivated by humans for almost 5,000 years.

Since alcohol can sometimes reduce stress levels, the fruit may be encouraging social ... had to hide cameras in three locations because the wild chimps are unaccustomed to humans.

The last wild Round Island hurricane palm, a rare tree native to Mauritius, snapped during a windstorm in mid-September, marking its extinction. Once thriving on a tiny island in the Indian ...

Wild chimpanzees have been pictured eating and sharing fruit containing alcohol. For the first time, wild chimpanzees have been pictured eating and sharing fruit containing alcohol. A research ...

Wild service trees produce a "date-like" fruit which used to be eaten as sweets, or to make a type of beer A rare type of native tree whose fruit was eaten by children as sweets and was once used ...

The Cape Verde date palm (Phoenix atlantica), native to the island nation it’s nicknamed for, is one of three trees there that don’t grow in the wild anywhere else. The islands, scattered off ...

Palm oil harvesters only know the fruit is ripe for picking when it starts to drop from the tree, he explains. “Now, we are starting to understand the genetic mechanisms behind fruit drop,” says ...

The real threat to the city’s palm-lined avenues is ... In summer, the tree produces cascading branches of yellow-orange fruit, eaten by wild parrots. “The city, the municipality and the ...