Three years later, cleanup efforts continue and researchers are studying the long-term consequences of the spill on the Arava's fragile ecological system and local species, such as the
doum palm and acacia trees.
It was perched in a
doum palm looking extremely unobtrusive, but that turquoise just shone.
The Evrona Nature reserve, which is home to a rare population of
Doum palm trees, Acacia trees, and Dorcas gazelles, was hit hard by the spill and the clean up is presumed to take months.
Among the topics: evidence of domestication in the Old World grain legumes, the importance and antiquity of frikkeh, the
doum palm in South Arabia, the Irish keyhole-shaped corn-drying kiln, and the advance of agriculture in the coastal zone of East Asia.
The local people commonly use the name "eengol" to refer to both the
doum palm tree and its fruit.
Pokot women, members of a small and exclusively rural tribe, wear a distinctive large, flat necklace made of
doum palm and edged by red and yellow glass beads.
class="MsoNormalThis castaway-style lodge sits high among sand dunes and
doum palms in the heart of the Tana River Delta, along the wide concave stretch of coast between Malindi and Lamu.
The area is richly covered with
Doum palms, which have more branches than regular palm trees, with fruit that look relatively similar, but quite a bit bigger, than dates.
Set among the
doum palms, a small cluster of pale canvas tents looked out over the cool waters of the Ewaso Nyiro River.