By Shanna Hanbury Wild ecosystems such as grassland savannas, bush and open wetlands are losing ground worldwide to make way ...

Droughts are becoming both more frequent and more intense in many parts of the world. Savannas, which cover nearly 20% of ...

From high on a promontory in the Korannaberg Mountains, a mountain zebra (Equus zebra hartmannae) peers down to the west ...

Termite mounds are a defining characteristic of African savannas, serving as nutrient‐rich hotspots that profoundly influence local ecosystem dynamics. Constructed by socially organised termites, ...

Scientists have found that a mere 30 species of trees in the Cerrado -- the world's largest and most floristically diverse savanna -- account for nearly half of all its trees. The 'hyperdominance' by ...

A study by research teams at the National Museum of Natural Science and National Taiwan University has, for the first time, unveiled Taiwan's vanished Pleistocene ecosystem: a warm, arid savanna ...

The Cerrado, largely overlooked in climate science and policy, is a critical carbon sink, according to new research.

The Amazon’s “tipping point” refers to the transition of the rainforest into a drier, savanna ecosystem. The rainforest’s ecological balance depends on the transport and recycling of moisture, but ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You’ve heard of the Amazon rainforest, but have you heard of its neighbor, the cerrado? It’s a vast savanna — the most biodiverse ...

Scientists have found that a mere 30 species of trees in the Cerrado—the world's largest and most floristically diverse savanna—account for nearly half of all its trees. This phenomenon of ...