As much as one-fifth of the Earth's surface is covered in wild grasses in biomes known, aptly, as grasslands. These biomes are characterized by the plants that grow there, but they also attract a ...

image: Researchers at the University of Tsukuba Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute used historical maps to reveal that the Sugadaira Kogen area in Nagao Prefecture was once covered in ...

Join EVA ('Earth's Virtual Assistant') to investigate the climate, plants and animals that characterise two of the planet's major biomes: woodlands and grasslands. EVA: Get set for an exciting journey ...

In the early 2000s, a harvest of pine trees on Tennessee’s Cumberland Plateau led to a remarkable discovery. Once sunlight hit the ground, the seeds and rootstock of native grasses and wildflowers ...

Aim: Grasslands and savannas, which make up > 75% of Madagascar's land area, have long been viewed as anthropogenically derived after people settled on the island c. 2 ka. We investigated this ...

The Brazilian Congress is analyzing a bill that would leave all the country’s non-forestry vegetation unprotected, affecting an area twice the size of the United Kingdom. Behind the proposal are the ...

Jan. 5 (UPI) --Once a carbon sink, grasslands have evolved to become a net positive source of greenhouse gas over the last few hundreds years. In a new study, published Tuesday in the journal Nature ...