Giant African Baobab Trees Dying Suddenly After More than 1,000 Years

Guardian

Some of Africa’s biggest baobab trees, nicknamed “the tree of life”, have abruptly died in the past decade. Researchers suspect the die-off may be associated, at least in part, with significant changes in southern Africa’s climate. The trees were 1,100 to 2,500 years old and some as wide as a bus is long.

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