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 ...

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 ...

ABU DHABI, 16th July, 2026 (WAM) -- The General Secretariat of the Khalifa International Award for Date Palm and Agricultural Innovation has opened nominations for the award's 19th edition, to be held ...

Part 2 of the Date Palm project features the Phoenix dactylifera, commonly known as the date palm. This flowering plant ...

Date palms are among the most important plants of the Arabian desert. At first, this may seem surprising. The desert is hot, ...

Methuselah, Adam, Jonah, Uriel, Boaz, Judith and Hannah—all sat dormant in Judea since biblical times. Now scientists have resurrected them in the hopes of better understanding their vanished lineage.

Jaggery is a very common household food item in most of the Indian households. It is used as a sweetener in various dishes and also stands out as a solo ingredient in many preparations. Also, there ...

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.

A 32-year-old entrepreneur in Vietnam's Mekong Delta has transformed a 6,800-square-meter date palm farm into a popular ...

Eight people have died in Bangladesh after consuming contaminated raw date palm sap. From early January to mid-February, 11 cases including eight deaths from the Nipah virus have been reported across ...

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 ...