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, ...

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 ...

Tree planting to restore forests, capture carbon and improve the land has gained strong momentum in recent years. The Bonn Challenge and its offshoots such as AFR100, initiatives focused on forest ...

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 ...

Ants are not out of their weight class when defending trees from the appetite of nature's heavyweight, the African elephant, a new study finds. Columns of angered ants will crawl up into elephant ...

Scientists using chemical isotopes in ancient soil to measure prehistoric tree cover--in effect, shade--have found that grassy, tree-dotted savannas prevailed at most East African sites where human ...

Home News Environment The risks of tree plantation in grassland and non-forest areas The risks of tree plantation in grassland and non-forest areas If you’re thinking just in terms of tree cover in an ...

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 ...