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

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

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 ...

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.

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.

Woods are typically smaller than forests, though the number of trees isn’t as germane as the amount of cover. Areas with less than 25% coverage are a tree savanna.

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 ...

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.