What do you imagine when you think of a tropical ecosystem—lush rainforests or maybe coral reefs teeming with life? Whatever you’re picturing, it probably doesn’t involve too much grass. But tropical ...

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 ...

Centuries-old Marathi stories reveal that India’s savannas have existed much longer than commonly believed, challenging assumptions that they are degraded former forests.

In the earliest text written in Marathi, a language of millions in western and central India, a 13th-century religious figure ...

Savannas and grasslands cover a vast area, some 20 percent of the earth’s land surface — from sub-Saharan Africa, to the Cerrado in Brazil, to North America’s heartland. They also offer an enormous ...

A North Carolina State University study shows that fire suppression efforts in Brazilian savannas turn many of those areas into forest lands, with negative consequences for the plants and animals that ...

The vegetated earthmounds which dot the great expanse of seasonally flooded grassland of the Pantanal do Mato Grosso and other ecosystems of Central Brazil are ...

Carbon isotope evidence in almost 6-million-year-old soils suggests that the earliest humans already were evolving in – and likely preferred – humid forests rather than grasslands, report a team of ...

Today, the Songhor fossil site in western Kenya is covered by a mixture of grass and trees adjacent to a modern river. Evidence from this site indicates that it was likely a relatively closed tropical ...