A recently published study in the journal BioScience reveals that endangered longleaf pine ecosystems—among North America's ...

In recent years, as governments have begun to protect tropical forests because of the carbon they store, other vast tropical ecosystems have come under increasing threat. These are the wet ...

But climate change is not the only threat that forests and savannas are facing. The way people are using these two ecosystems is also having an impact. For example, ...

A new study finds that, contrary to popular belief, grassy biomes such as grasslands and savannas are species-rich ecosystems every bit as biodiverse as rainforests — yet little attention is ...

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But insidious threats like fire could be affecting their long-term survival too, a new study warns. In African savannas, natural resource managers frequently use fire as a tool to manage wildlife ...

Rising deforestation in the neighboring Cerrado, one of the world’s most biodiverse savannas, is another emerging climate threat, as parts of the savanna give way to pastures.