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Africa's 2000-year-old trees of life are suddenly dying off

Africa's 2000-year-old trees of life are suddenly dying off

11 June 2018

In the past decade most of the oldest baobabs, many of them sprouted over two millennia ago, have died unexpectedly and few new ones are sprouting

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People without electricity could end up living the energy dream

19 December 2017

Solar power is giving millions of people access to electricity for the first time – could they bypass traditional fossil fuel grids altogether?

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