For more than 40 years, readers have been writing to gardening expert Marianne Binetti about a particularly finicky ...

Organised by the Temple of Literature–Quoc Tu Giam Cultural and Scientific Activities Centre to welcome the 2026 New Year, the programme blends traditional Vietnamese music with the site’s ...

There are books that I am never really through with, and Sylvia Plath’s “The Bell Jar” is one. I always know exactly where it ...

Fig trees are prolific growers and can mature at 10 to 30 feet tall and wide. Pruning controls their size so they grow more bushlike than treelike. Native to Asia and the Mediterranean, they thrive in ...

Wanjira Mathai talks about how large-scale tree planting and landscape restoration efforts across Africa are helping to heal the environment while also supporting local communities. She highlights how ...

Polokwane police in Hlanganani have opened an inquest after the body of a man was found hanging from a tree in Rotterdam village in Limpopo on Friday. Peter Themba Baloyi and his 15-year-old daughter ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Nairobi — Farmers can now know and benefit from their contribution to climate change thanks to a formula that can be used to calculate the amount of carbon stored in fruit trees. In a project dubbed ...