While these low-maintenance trees often need lots of sun and warm temperatures to thrive, many species are surprisingly ...

Call me heretical, but sometimes I feel that way about L.A.’s palm trees. The difference is that there is almost nowhere that you won’t see a palm tree, including right out my back door. Don’t blame ...

A new study by Connecticut College provides strong evidence that palm trees once thrived in subarctic Canada, reshaping ...

Across southeastern Liberia, oil palms grow wild in the forest. Known as “country palm,” the Elaeis guineensis tree is native ...

It’s an edible vegetable oil that comes from the fruit of oil palm trees, the scientific name is Elaeis guineensis. Two types of oil can be produced; crude palm oil comes from squeezing the fleshy ...

To explore this hypothesis, Richards and her colleagues used a combination of cameras, electrical field change meters, and field surveys to pinpoint lightning strikes and assess the damage to trees at ...

A new study led by Connecticut College professor Peter Siver provides strong evidence that palm trees once flourished in ...

Environmentalists have called for an in-depth investigation into the felling of 28 mature palm trees in Paphos, following a complaint from a local resident. "We insist that municipalities follow the ...

The conversion of forests into palm oil plantations remains a contentious issue in Indonesia. As the country with one of the ...