Australia's forests are losing trees more rapidly as the climate warms, a new study examining decades of data said Tuesday, ...

Coupled field observations and phytoclimatic modeling show that the distribution of African forest and savanna ecosystems are highly predictable by climate, researchers report in a new study. The ...

A recent study from Brazil shows that heat stress is disrupting a critical component of photosynthesis in tree species found in the Amazon and Cerrado belt. Leaves heat up faster than the ambient air, ...

A new study published in the journal Nature Communications indicates that the Amazon rainforest could shift from a closed canopy rainforest to an open savanna due to the climate crisis. The study ...

At a glance, a savanna doesn't appear to be the most diverse of ecosystems. Sure, there are exotic animals like zebras and lions running around, but how varied can one sprawling, grassy plain in ...

Savannas and grasslands in drier climates around the world store more heat-trapping carbon than scientists thought they did and are helping to slow the rate of climate warming, according to a new ...

Savannas and grasslands cover a vast area, some 20 percent of the earth’s land surface — from sub-Saharan Africa, to the Cerrado in Brazil, to North America’s heartland. They also offer an enormous ...

As the climate continues to warm it is changing the natural environment in all kinds of ways, from "death events" on the Great Barrier Reef to the growth of vegetation in the upper reaches of the ...

A new DAAD-supported Global Climate and Environment Center has begun its work this year at the Universities of Nairobi, Kenya and Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny in Côte d’Ivoire, in partnership ...

Researchers might have finally provided a solution to the ecological riddle of why tree abundance on Africa's grassy savannas diminishes in response to heavy rainfall despite scientists' expectations ...

In the earliest text written in Marathi, a language of millions in western and central India, a 13th-century religious figure named Cakradhara points to an acacia tree as a symbol of the cycle of ...

Australia's forests are losing trees more rapidly as the climate warms, a new study examining decades of data said Tuesday, ...