Plant species mentioned in texts from the past 800 years hint the wooded grasslands of western India have been there since ...

New research into centuries-old Marathi poetry is overturning a powerful myth about India’s landscapes, revealing that the ...

In the earliest text written in Marathi, a language of millions in western and central India, a 13th-century religious figure ...

Centuries-old Marathi stories reveal that India’s savannas have existed much longer than commonly believed, challenging assumptions that they are degraded former forests.

Published in the British Ecological Society's People and Nature journal the researchers said that folklore helped reveal the history of India's ancient savanna.

In remote central Arnhem Land, finding a northern brushtail possum is encouraging for the local Indigenous rangers. Though once common, such small native mammals are now rare. Many are threatened with ...

An improved variety of grass combined with a rotational grazing system can boost levels of soil carbon on tropical savannas by 15 percent compared to degraded pasture, a new study performed by the ...

What most people know about Brazil tends to be limited, either to the iconic beaches of Rio de Janeiro or the vast jungles of the Amazon. The massive jungle is one of the world’s most important ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract As tropical savannas are undergoing rapid conversion to other land uses, native C₃-C₄ vegetation mixtures are often transformed to C₃- or ...

In recent years, the escalating impact of global warming has prompted efforts to reverse troubling trends, often by planting trees to capture and remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it ...