A former biology teacher-turned-environmentalist is on a crusade in Uganda to save the once-flourishing trees from which shea ...

When Gibril Ali talks of “black gold", he does not mean oil. He buys it in sacks, not barrels. He sells it to his customers ...

Chart: The Economist Charcoal has fuelled Africa’s urbanisation. It is dense in energy and hard to regulate, much like cities themselves. Despite concerns about pollution, lost trees and illicit ...

No photographs remain of João Gomes de Azevedo’s village before eucalyptus plantations radically transformed it. Instead, ...

Many are ditching chemical-laden toothpastes and embracing alternatives like activated charcoal, essential oil rinses, and ...

Mustafa Gerima wants local communities to stop chopping down the trees to make charcoal - which they say is more profitable than the oil, also used in cooking, that is extracted from its fruit.

Archaeologists now have an approximate time frame for when a very old hearth was used in La Veta about an hour southwest of ...

Over time, 60% of the native vegetation in this expanse of Cerrado savanna was replaced by sprawling plantations of eucalyptus trees, which in turn were cut down to produce charcoal. Acesita was ...

At the Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation, Ranjit Hoskote curates a tribute to Gieve Patel—physician, poet, and ...