"Mom and grandma swear by it." Expert issues dire warning about medicinal plant spreading through gardens: 'Quickly takes ...

The federal government says the country's medicinal plants remain largely underutilized, undervalued, and insufficiently integrated into the mainstream health and economic systems.

Combining a passion for computer science and a calling to become a healer, Onke Simandla has used his IT skills and knowledge ...

The nonprofit American Botanical Council (ABC) has presented its ABC Steven Foster Botanical Conservation and Sustainability ...

The Nigerian government launched a strategic phytomedicine initiative on Wednesday to diversify the economy while advancing ...

As the planet heats up and the push to decarbonise gathers pace, indigenous peoples – long among the world’s most effective ...

The culture of herbalism in Ethiopia has traveled distance curing internal disease, bone fixing and other related illness associated with psychological or superstitious matters.

But “selfing,” as it’s called, can have drawbacks, too. Populations that self-pollinate for generations will likely have less ...

Two teenagers have been sentenced after they were found with about 5,000 ants in their possession. While they claim it was an ...

The memories of first encounters with certain plants last a lifetime. Often, such plants are discovered growing in places ...

American chemist Alice Ball revolutionized leprosy treatment by making chaulmoogra oil injectable, decades before antibiotics ...

Today, whole families in much of the world live for a week on the amount of water Donald Trump squanders each time he flushes ...