The biodiversity economy is made up of businesses and economic activities that use living species and ecosystems to make ...

African researchers are now turning to the continent’s medicinal plants treasure chest to develop new drugs locally, as increasing pandemic outbreaks and global antimicrobial resistance continue ...

South Africa’s medical cannabis and hemp sector is on the verge of transformation, but industry leaders say it will take ...

New research published in Communications Biology has uncovered the earliest known use of the medicinal and psychoactive plant ...

Chimpanzees in Uganda have been observed using plants to treat open wounds and tend to each other’s ­injuries.