WITN

Fig-tastic day at the Fig Festival in Greenville

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) - While many were ‘fig’-uring out their weekend plans, hundreds of people attended the Fig Festival in Greenville. The Fig Festival was back for its third year and was held at ...
The Fresno Bee

Fig fanatic brings exotic fruit flavors to customers. ‘Part of Fresno’s history’

Brian Melton cultivates over 300 fig varieties in Fresno through grafting. Local customers buy Melton's figs directly via social media and porch pickup. Fresno remains key to U.S. fig production, ...
The Daily Telegraph

Fig trees are perfect for the lazy gardener. Here’s how to grow them

Fig trees are perfect for the lazy gardener. Here’s how to grow them Shop-bought figs are not a patch on home-grown – these are the best varieties for hardiness and flavour Gift this article free ...
Mongabay

Arboreal camera traps reveal wildlife feasting on Borneo’s fruiting fig trees

Camera traps installed high in the rainforest canopy in Malaysian Borneo have filmed a bounty of threatened primates, hornbills and a host of tree-dwelling animals feasting on figs. Biologists from ...
The Conversation

Sylvia Plath’s ‘fig tree analogy’ from The Bell Jar is being misappropriated

Elisha Wise will receive funding from the White Rose College of Arts and Humanities (ARCH) from October 2025. In chapter seven of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar (1963), protagonist Esther Greenwood ...
allthatsinteresting

Scientists Just Learned That Some Species Of Fig Trees Can Convert Carbon Dioxide Into ...

Elementary school science teaches that trees produce the oxygen we breathe, and we, in turn, exhale carbon dioxide for trees to absorb. That isn’t where the process ends, though. Some trees can ...
The Beaumont Enterprise

Fermenting figs? Here's how to avoid that.

A couple of weeks ago, we talked about fig trees that thrive in our Southeast Texas climate and yield bountiful harvests. Thanks to this year’s wonderful weather, our fig trees are bursting with fruit ...
earth

How fig trees turn parts of themselves to stone

Some species of fig trees possess an extraordinary ability. They can store calcium carbonate inside their trunks, essentially turning parts of themselves into stone. A new study shows that these trees ...
Phys.org

Fig trees convert atmospheric CO₂ to stone, research reveals

Some species of fig trees store calcium carbonate in their trunks—essentially turning themselves (partially) into stone, new research has found. The team of Kenyan, U.S., Austrian, and Swiss ...
New Scientist

Fig trees may benefit climate by turning carbon dioxide into stone

Some fig trees can convert surprisingly large amounts of carbon dioxide into stone, ensuring that the carbon remains in the soil long after the tree has died. This means that fig trees planted for ...
EurekAlert!

Fig trees convert atmospheric CO2 to stone

Some species of fig trees store calcium carbonate in their trunks – essentially turning themselves (partially) into stone, new research has found. The team of Kenyan, U.S., Austrian, and Swiss ...