The map uses a binary red/blue color scheme to show the state of grasslands in North America. Areas in red have lost ...

A research team from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has released ...

Researchers found evidence humans lived at a site in southern Côte d’Ivoire, a region of present-day rainforest, about 150,000 years ago.

According to the traditional scientific narrative, Africa was once a verdant idyll of vast forests stretching from coast to coast. In these lush habitats, around 21 million years ago, the earliest ...

Converting the grasslands of African savannas into new forests poses a fire risk that could call into ... The maps AFR100 relies on to find suitable land for tree planting have ...

Climate change has harmed the productivity of grasslands in Africa, threatening the livelihoods of millions on the continent.. In a new commentary in Nature, scientists from the Global Farm ...

We used to think tropical, C4-dominated grasslands only appeared in the last 8 million years or so, depending on the continent. Instead, both phytolith data and isotopic data showed that C4-dominated ...

Tree-planting projects in Africa may damage grasslands and savannahs by introducing too much shade. By preventing smaller plants from photosynthesising, this would have knock-on effects for the ...

Africa: Wooded Grasslands Flourished in Africa 21 Million Years Ago - New Research Forces a Rethink of Ape Evolution. Lonely Planet. Rwanda. 13 April 2023. The Conversation Africa (Johannesburg) ...

Inset map shows the geographic location of sites in eastern Africa. The realization that such a variety of environments, especially open habitats with C₄ grasses, was present at the dawn of the apes ...