Africa: Climate Change Threatens Dar, Africa's Baobabs

TANZANIA is among African countries facing massive loss of baobab trees due to the lethal climatic wave sweeping across the continent.

A new report, "Demise of the largest and oldest African baobabs," published by 'Nature Plants,' and availed here, indicates that so far nine out of Africa's 13 largest and oldest trees have suddenly collapsed probably due to climate change.

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