Sitting off the Horn of Africa, the Yemeni island of Socotra was largely left to its own devices for centuries, its few guests arriving to trade for aromatic frankincense, the healing plant aloe and ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Boswellia is an “iconic genus,” Frans Bongers, a professor of tropical forest ecology at Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands, told ...

A friend showed me this island at the beginning of 2021. Until that moment, I knew nothing about it and had never seen it in books, magazines, or in the media. It’s strange that we hadn’t crossed ...

Khor Sirhin estuary with Date Palms with Haggeher mountains in the background at sunrise on Socotra Island, Yemen.