Shea butter comes from the shea tree, which grows naturally in sub-Saharan Africa. It is traditionally used for washing and for treating stomach ailments. Shea butter is extracted from the nut of the ...

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

Shea trees grow in the wild from West to East Africa - a vast strip known as the "shea belt". But the shea tree population has dramatically plummeted in recent year, it says. This loss ...

For centuries, hundreds of millions of people have relied on desert wetlands that are now disappearing. Can blending ancient ...