In danger :: Now Smell This

The critical note in some of the world’s most well-known perfumes is myrrh, a tree resin from the Horn of Africa that is under pressure from what experts call a historic drought.

Threatened by the lack of water and nibbled by starving livestock, the trees that once formed a dense forest in the Somali region of Ethiopia are in danger, locals say.

— Read more in The myrrh tree that’s key to luxury perfumes and African incomes is threatened by drought at AP News.