One wet Saturday night in late October, a procession of drummers, fire dancers and other spiritual pilgrims marched out a front door on East 16th Street. Darkness and downpour didn’t prevent their ...

Australia's black wattle tree (Acacia mearnsii) has spread across South Africa, taking over millions of hectares of land and pushing indigenous plants aside. Economist Saul Ngarava researches ...

MAUI, Hawaii (KITV) — As fire season begins, conservationists on Maui are removing fire-prone trees near upcountry homes impacted by the 2023 fires. The effort is not as simple as it may sound, as ...

Joel Mudahana inspects mature wattle trees harvested. He is among farmers who invested millions of shillings to plant hundreds of acres under wattle trees dedicated to charcoal burning but cannot burn ...

Coimbatore: While environmentalists, researchers and courts across the state are busy discussing the menace of seemai karuvellam or prosopis juliflora, not many people know that there is another ...

Spring has arrived, and all over the country the hills and riversides are burnished with the green and gold of Australian wattles, all belonging to the genus Acacia. It's a spectacular sight, but not ...

What is black wattle and what threat does it pose to the environment? The black wattle is an invasive Australian tree that arrived in South Africa in 1871. It was originally introduced in plantations ...