The National Agency for the Great Green Wall (NAGGW) has appealed to the federal government to support its 50 million date ...

In this video, we present part 2 of the Date Palm project. The date palm, scientifically known as Phoenix dactylifera, is cultivated for its sweet fruit, dates, which are widely grown across northern ...

It’s 3 a.m. in Nimpith, a tiny town in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal. Sixty-one-year-old Chuno Mistry heads towards a row of wild date palm trees. Mistry is a shuli, or date palm tree tapper ...

Methuselah date palm, grown from a 2,000-year-old seed found at Masada, is now in kibbutz Ketura. The history of the date palm in Israel is inextricably bound to the history of Israel itself. A great ...

If spring is coming, so is Easter with its Easter brunch spreads and Easter egg hunts. But before we get there in the Christian calendar, Holy Week takes place, with Palm Sunday kicking off the seven ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Date palms have been cultivated for at least 4,000 years. They are the ...

2005-06-12 04:00:00 PDT Kibbutz Ketura, Israel-- It has five leaves, stands 14 inches high and is nicknamed Methuselah. It looks like an ordinary date palm seedling, but for UCLA- educated botanist ...

The researchers hope to resurrect a variety of date praised in antiquity. This is an Inside Science story. (Inside Science) -- Methuselah, Adam, Jonah, Uriel, Boaz, Judith and Hannah -- all sat ...