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 ...

Central Eurasian grasslands are referred to as steppes, while African grasslands are savannas ... grasslands often lie between forests and deserts. (See grassland photos.) Depending on how ...

(Artist credit: Corbin Rainbolt) An international team of scientists has documented the earliest evidence for local abundance in eastern Africa of the types of grasses that now dominate grassland and ...

Because the timing of the assembly of Africa’s grassland habitats underlies many evolutionary hypotheses, our discovery that they existed much earlier than expected calls for a recalibration of ...

MURCHISON FALLS NATIONAL PARK, Uganda—A herd of elephants stomped through savannah grasslands to the throbbing ... against climate change, as some African governments with unexplored natural ...

Alongside the grasslands, an indoor habitat named ‘Hidden Savannah’ has become the new home to many of Africa’s desert dwellers and other species such as pygmy mice, African bullfrog and ...

A 22.5 acre (nine hectare) savannah, designed to replicate the grasslands of Africa, is to open at Chester Zoo. One of the UK's biggest habitats to be created, the Heart of Africa zone is home to ...