Alitheia Capital and Goodwell Investments have successfully exited their investment in Baobab Nigeria, a microfinance institution that has played a key role in expanding financial access for ...

Together with the oceans, they are one of the two most important carbon sinks, due to their capacity to store carbon in the soil and in tree biomass. As such, promoting fast-growing trees could ...

ONE OF THE most divisive nutrition topics right now—and there are a lot of them—is fat. Most of the recent arguments have centered on the supposed dangers of seed oils. Now, saturated fats ...

“It’s not funny or lighthearted and anyone who claims that it is is either naive to the origin of the trend or the aspirations of people using the feature (flattery on being a smaller size ...

(you could remember these by the rough translations “tree liquid,” “tree fat,” and “tree skin”). Other kanji include 朽 or “rot” and 枯 or “wither.” We can make a third group ...

One pod is going to last a long long while. It keeps, they tell me, for years. Now I realise what this really is. Travel food. In an African village, the baobab tree is all things: food, shelter, ...

The math concept hidden in this tree art — geometric shapes known as fractals — is apparent in branching patterns in nature and may be key to humans’ ability to recognize such artwork as ...

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — The next breakthrough in anti-aging medicine might come from a surprising source: fat. But not just any fat—brown fat, a special type that burns energy rather than storing it.