The United Nations has declared 2026 to be the ‘International Year for Rangelands and Pastoralists’.

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 ...

Grasslands cover about a quarter of the world’s land and are the most agriculturally important biome. Though they have many names (prairies, pampas, steppes, savannas) and cover the interiors of every ...

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 ...

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 ...

Additions to the vascular floras of four states are reported herein: Colorado (Calibrachoa parviflora, Chamaesyce prostrata, Gleditsia triacanthos, Oenothera engelmannii, Oenothera laciniata, ...