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 ...

The Brazilian Congress is analyzing a bill that would leave all the country’s non-forestry vegetation unprotected, affecting an area twice the size of the United Kingdom. Behind the proposal are the ...

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

Countries around the world have made ambitious targets to restore native ecosystems as an important nature-based solution, with Brazil committing to restoring 12 million hectares (30 million acres) of ...

In the early 2000s, a harvest of pine trees on Tennessee’s Cumberland Plateau led to a remarkable discovery. Once sunlight hit the ground, the seeds and rootstock of native grasses and wildflowers ...

Tree cover across Indian savannas varies significantly, at odds with global patterns of low tree cover in grasslands 1.Theories suggest that forests have more tree cover than savannas, as forests ...

Researchers who analysed 700 years of Marathi literature argue that India’s plains are not human-made ruins.

Susanne Vetter receives funding from The National Research Foundation, ACCESS and Rhodes University. Large areas targeted for forest restoration in Africa, Asia and South America are covered by ...

Whether in a desert, the savanna, or a tropical rainforest, plants have an important role in the ecological processes of Earth’s biomes. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we’ll explore these ...