Human evolution is tightly connected to the environment and landscape of Africa, where our ancestors first emerged. According to the traditional scientific narrative, Africa was once a verdant idyll ...

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 ...

Ambitious tree-planting projects that aim to restore forests in Africa could inadvertently harm grasslands and savannahs by introducing too much shade. This may prevent smaller plants from ...

For 75 years, grasslands research conducted just outside Pietermaritzburg, South Africa has informed policy makers and farmers about sustainable management, while training generations of students.

Catastrophic fires in the Amazon rainforest made global headlines, but since then NASA has noted that right now there are actually many more fires in parts of Africa than in Brazil.This has led some ...

An elephant takes a drink in the African Grasslands exhibit at the Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium in Omaha. The Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium opens its $73 million, 28-acre African Grasslands exhibit on ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) For 75 years, grasslands research conducted just outside Pietermaritzburg, South Africa has informed policy makers and farmers about sustainable management, while training ...

Three fossilized bones from Morotopithecus: a vertebra, part of a jaw and a femur. Credit: L. MacLatchy and J. Kingston Three fossilized bones from Morotopithecus: a vertebra, part of a jaw and a ...

Human evolution is tightly connected to the environment and landscape of Africa, where our ancestors first emerged. According to the traditional scientific narrative, Africa was once a verdant idyll ...