Apples are from Central Asia. But that doesn’t guarantee they will survive there forever. Climate change and human activity are threatening the wild apple with “local and regional extinction” in its ...
Malus sieversii is a wild apple native to the mountains of southern Kazakhstan. Anna Yu/Alamy The foothills of Kazakhstan’s Tian Shan mountains are something of a genetic wonderland. This vast ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The single lonely tree was first discovered by botanists in 2003 on a rocky outcrop on the island of Pabaigh Mor, which lies off ...