Getaway Magazine

Searching for shade: SA destinations built around ancient, massive trees

When summer temperatures start to rise, South Africa’s ancient trees offer some of the most enchanting and refreshingly cool ...
The New York Times

A Famed Fig Tree’s Days Are Numbered as a New Highway Plows Through

A tree that has graced a neighborhood in Nairobi, Kenya, for nearly a century is slated to be taken down to make way for a highway through the city intended to reduce traffic jams. By Abdi Latif Dahir ...
Techno-Science.net

These fig trees turn CO2 into stone, a surprising discovery

Some African fig trees possess an astonishing ability. They transform carbon dioxide into stone, according to a recent study. An international team discovered that these trees store calcium carbonate ...
CNN

Kenya’s president saves century-old fig tree from highway

Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta has issued a decree to save a much-loved century-old fig tree from being cut down to make way for a Chinese-funded highway in the capital Nairobi. The presidential ...
JSTOR Daily

African Fig Wasp Communities: Undersaturation and Latitudinal Gradients in Species Richness

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract 1. We examined species richness patterns for the wasps associated with southern and central African figs (Ficus) to determine if fig wasp ...
Marin Independent Journal

Do you have a fig tree? Look out for the black fig fly

If you’ve got fig trees, listen up because there’s a new troublemaker that’s headed our way — the black fig fly (Silba adipata). Hailing all the way from the Mediterranean region, this little critter ...