Our Burning Planet

Fierce fires can help save the veld from bush encroachment and extinction, says top UCT ecologist

By Yves Vanderhaeghen

Maverick Life

Searching for a female partner for the world’s ‘loneliest’ plant

By Laura Cinti

South Africa

Green shoots — five new forests spring up in Cape Town

By Kristin Engel

Africa

Why a ‘fetish’ for forests might imperil conservation efforts

By Fred Kockott and Savannah Burns

Newsdeck

Portugal on high alert for wildfires as temperatures soar

By Reuters

Magazine

Discovering the forest wonders of Africa – and the threats they face

By Robert Nasi

South Africa

Deforestation in 2021 caused greenhouse gas increases equivalent to India’s annual fossil fuel emissions

By Ethan van Diemen

South Africa

Sir David Attenborough explores the roots of all life in new BBC series, The Green Planet

By Onke Ngcuka

Magazine

Building back nature is more complicated than just planting trees

By Catherine Del Monte

Magazine

Quiver Trees – a succulent that would literally give an arm and a leg to survive

By Chris Marais and Julienne du Toit

Magazine

Uncovering an ancient subterranean society: Are plants using underground fungal networks to ‘communicate’?

By Catherine Del Monte

Magazine

The story of a forgotten forest fire stirs sparks of insight and provides hope in the Age of Covid

By Ed Stoddard