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 ...

Grasslands — also known as prairies, steppes, pampas or savannas — are home to 25% of the world’s population and all kinds of plants and wildlife, including elephants, rhinos and lions. They also ...

Nearly 40% of the land on Earth is covered not by forests, or ice, but by vast expanses of open grasslands like this one in western Maharashtra, India. Now, scientists are turning to an untapped ...

Too often, one ecosystem is overlooked in value and complexity in the workings of our planet. The images of a leveled forest or polluted waterway resonate much more strongly than the increasing ...

Australia has the largest intact savannas on Earth. Savannas are an ever-changing mosaic of ecosystems—from the sparse grasslands to dense woodlands, forests and wetlands. They stretch from Cape York ...

Ms. Renkl is a contributing Opinion writer who covers flora, fauna, politics and culture in the American South. Until last fall, when PBS screened “The American Buffalo,” a documentary by Ken Burns, I ...

Centuries of texts composed in Marathi, a language primarily spoken in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, challenge a long-held narrative about the tropical savannas there. A new study adds to ...

In the earliest text written in Marathi, a language of millions in western and central India, a 13th-century religious figure named Cakradhara points to an acacia tree as a symbol of the cycle of ...