The lack of water makes the savanna a difficult place for tall plants such as trees to grow. Grasses and trees that grow in the savanna have adapted to life with little water and hot temperatures.

Utah State University scientist and UPR reporter, Ryan Helcoski, explores how carcass sites may become attractive to grazing ...

Growths on plants formed by parasitic weevils help their offspring hunker down on a Brazilian savanna and outlast the flames.

Some parts are used for animal grazing. It’s a spectacular, deadly world in the savanna - where all the plants and animals have finely tuned their survival tools to play their part in the ...

No one should garden in an area without knowing what ecoregion they are in and what geological and meteorological events ...

To plant crops, farmers have to tear out and burn these roots, which devastates natural seed banks and the savanna’s ability to regenerate. Image by Sarah Sax. “To be able to restore ...

But I wandered on, determined to get a good ramble in around Okàn Savanna. Sumac, one of the first plants to change color, stood naked except for the drupes like misshapen fists. Its seeds are ...