Workers clear trees and wooded vegetation Thursday at the Matsell Bridge Natural Area near Central City as restoration begins of a 9-acre savanna. The project is funded by a $10,000 National Fish & ...

The mechanism has resulted from evolution over millions of years to protect the buds that enable plants to survive fire. A study conducted in an environmental protection unit can contribute to ...

3 million wildebeest accompanied by about 200,000 zebras and 400,000 gazelles covering up to 3,000 kilometers annually in a clockwise cycle that follows seasonal rainfall patterns. The herds travel ...

SAO PAULO, Dec 13 (Reuters) - Deforestation in the world's most biologically diverse savanna, the Brazilian Cerrado, rose by around 25% in the 12 months through July from the previous period, two ...

A plant that hunts. Bladderworts belong to the family Lentibulariaceae, a group of plants famous for their unusual traps.

Brazilian farmers continue to plant more soy in Brazil's Cerrado savanna region but are cutting fewer trees to do so to avoid the costly investment, according to oilseeds crusher group Abiove which ...

Savannas play a significant socioeconomic role in regulating net primary productivity and the terrestrial carbon cycle. Mapping the spatial distribution and extent of existing temperate savannas is ...

The Amazon rainforest gets all the attention, but the neighboring cerrado stores massive amounts of carbon in its peaty soils ...

Aims: Savanna and forest biomes co-occur across many subtropical landscapes in Africa, and can be differentiated by their fire regime: fires are more frequent in savannas compared to forests. Bark ...

In the race to restore some of North America's most biodiverse and threatened ecosystems, a straightforward first step is likely among the most important. The eight-year experiment led by a team of ...