The savanna (sometimes mistakenly spelled as "Savannah," which is in the state of Georgia) describes an African region with ...

This chapter describes some of the major terrestrial biomes in the world; tropical forests, savannas, deserts, temperate grasslands, temperate deciduous forests, Mediterranean scrub, coniferous ...

A final look is taken at how humans have used the savanna grasslands. This clip is from the series Ecosystems and Biomes. This could be used to introduce students to the ecosystem of the tropical ...

Some of the world’s main biomes include rainforest, desert, savannah, grassland, woodland and tundra. Each biome has characteristics that make it unique, for example Alaska is a type of tundra.

Savanna and grassland store up to a third of the world ... and has the highest benefit-to-cost ratio of all the world’s biomes. Instead of providing guidance on how to restore healthy grasslands ...

A new global data set makes it possible to track near-real-time changes in several types of vegetation across different ecosystems, including grasslands, savannas, shrublands, croplands ...

On the other hand, the face of deforestation is changing in Brazil, concentrating in biomes where savannah and grassland formations ... the Cerrado is a vast savanna that once covered 2 million ...