1. Treeless grasslands with climates that can support tree growth are common in upland regions around the world. In South Africa, the upland grasslands are adjacent to lowland savannas in many areas, ...

Old Indian poems and folk songs are revealing a surprising truth about the land. Scientists found that descriptions of thorny trees and open grasslands in texts written as far back as the 1200s ...

Savannas and grasslands in drier climates around the world store more heat-trapping carbon than scientists thought they did and are helping to slow the rate of climate warming, according to a new ...

A study investigating the transition from forests to savannas and vice versa has found trees could be the key protagonists. A study investigating the transition from forests to savannas and vice versa ...

Africa has larger expanses of savannas than any other continent. These ecosystems – mainly grasses and some widely spaced trees – support the continent's wildlife and livestock, and provide many other ...

Grasslands are vast, open landscapes where grasses, sedges, and wildflowers dominate the terrain rather than trees. They ...

Tree planting has been widely promoted as a solution to climate change because plants absorb the climate-warming gases from Earth’s atmosphere as they grow. World leaders have already committed to ...

Global tree-planting initiatives, aimed at storing carbon from the atmosphere, could include plantations in fire-prone African savannas. 58% of tree plantations grown in South African grasslands ...

New research reveals western India's savannas are ancient natural ecosystems. Historical texts from the 13th century describe ...

Tree planting has been widely promoted as a solution to climate change, because plants absorb the climate-warming gases from Earth’s atmosphere as they grow. World leaders have already committed to ...

Researchers might have finally provided a solution to the ecological riddle of why tree abundance on Africa's grassy savannas diminishes in response to heavy rainfall despite scientists' expectations ...

Glade grasslands are fire-adapted ecosystems that contain diverse plant communities. This glade in Missouri has been managed with prescribed fire and mechanical thinning of woody vegetation. Photo: ...