In the 1970s and 1980s, pine trees growing in various forestry plantations in South Africa’s Western Cape province began to die in patches. These trees succumbed to a mysterious root disease and the ...
Social media users are sharing images of an otherworldly looking bar said to be located inside an ancient tree. While the pub was once open to the public, the widely shared post fails to mention that ...
A researcher followed up on a study warning that the massive trees were in danger, and found many venerable specimens thriving. By Rachel Nuwer Rachel Nuwer has reported on earlier concerns about ...
Previous Vice President of the Academy of Science of South Africa and DSI-NRF SARChI chair in Fungal Genomics, Professor in Genetics, University of Pretoria, University of Pretoria Andi Wilson ...