A lone acacia, known as the Tree of Ténéré, once stood defiantly in northeast Niger. For ages it lived companionless in the vast Sahara desert, the only tree for over 250 miles, until one day, some ...

Treehugger dug up this strange, sad story about L’Arbre du Ténéré, an acacia tree that for decades lived in the Saharan desert, in northern Niger, far far away from any other trees. Its roots reached ...

You’ll find a lot more sand than trees in the Sahara Desert, but that doesn’t mean they don’t occasionally crop up. Here’s the story of the Tree of Ténéré, as well as a couple other famous trees found ...

Cristina Barber, a graduate of Boise State’s Ecology, Evolution and Behavior Ph.D. program, recently led a team of researchers studying tropical forests. Their findings appear in a new study published ...

For decades, an acacia tree in the Nigerian Sahara served as a lone landmark in a deserted landscape. It was reported to be the only tree for 250 miles and was used as a marker by Tuareg traders and ...