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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
Harsh: Europe's cannabis died just as the first farmers arrived

Harsh: Europe's cannabis died just as the first farmers arrived

17 May 2018

Cannabis – the source of the drug marijuana – virtually disappeared from Europe just as farmers arrived, so they didn’t get the chance to grow it for another 4500 years

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