Ernakulam: Date palms bearing fruit are no longer a sight confined to Gulf countries. In Vallam, a date palm growing in the ...

India’s winters come with a set of foods, and nolen gud is one such food that is a comfort food, but at the same time, it is ...

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 ...

I planted a date palm seed and filmed its growth for three years. Now thriving and reaching the ceiling, this palm shows the ...

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 ...

What the island nation of Cape Verde cherishes as its own distinctive kind of date palm is getting an ancestry reveal. The Cape Verde date palm (Phoenix atlantica), native to the island nation it’s ...

The date palm, which was recognized by UNESCO on Wednesday, has for centuries played an important role in the establishment and growth of civilizations in the hot and dry regions of the Arab world.

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 ...

Dates have been one of the most important crops in the Middle East for thousands of years. © Matthew Corcoran NYU Abu Dhabi Date palms have provided food, shade and ...

Genome analysis reveals that North African date palms are a hybrid between cultivated date palms from the Middle East and a different, wild species of palm that grows on the island of Crete and in ...

It is estimated that around 50% of male infertility is treatable as it is usually caused by lifestyle, environmental and nutritional factors [1]. In fact, infertility affects around 15% of couples.