Spring cleanup is underway at the Middlefork Savanna in Lake Forest, where prescribed burns have returned. Saturday’s burn included smoke on the horizon over the nearly 700 acres. Nearby wetl… ...

The Woods According to the US National Vegetation Classification System, areas that have between 25 and 60% tree canopy cover, they qualify as woodlands or “the woods” or “a wood.” Woods are ...

It's hard to tell when—and why—our ancestors got down from trees and started walking on two legs. Many early hominins capable ...

The Nilgala savanna forest spans just over 12,400 hectares (30,700 acres) in the lower plains of Sri Lanka’s southern Uva province.

Cerling added that even our tree-dwelling ancestor Ardipithecus apparently had a small component of warm-season grasses or related plants in its diet. "It was going into the savanna, unless it was ...

A year after $10,000 in literal seed money from Webco was announced and a groundbreaking was held at the preserve west of Sand Springs, the pollinators are finding their refuge.

Zion resident Doug Ower said all of the savanna should remain forest preserve property, and the district should follow its 10-year-old master plan to restore wetlands there, rather than destroy them.

Deep in the cross-timbers forest, the wide-open savanna seems almost out of place, but Medlin said maps of the site from the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s show a natural savanna on the top of the hill.

The warm-season grasses that dominate savannas engage in a kind of photosynthesis that involves both carbon-12 and carbon-13. On the other hand, trees and shrubs rely on a kind of photosynthesis ...