PRINCETON, N.J.--With the global population rising, analysts and policymakers have targeted Africa's vast wet savannas as a place to produce staple foods and bioenergy groups at low environmental ...

Scientists have developed specialized graphs that map out fire behavior, known as nomographs, for landscape managers in Africa's savannas. The study pinpoints the optimal conditions for setting ...

Palo Alto, CA—Using sophisticated airborne imaging and structural analysis, scientists at the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology mapped more than 40,000 termite mounds over 192 square ...

Savannas and grasslands cover a vast area, some 20 percent of the earth’s land surface — from sub-Saharan Africa, to the Cerrado in Brazil, to North America’s heartland. They also offer an enormous ...

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Converting Africa's wet savannas into farmland would come at a high environmental cost and, in some cases, fail to meet existing standards for renewable fuels. Credit: Ticiana Jardim Marini, Woodrow ...

DAKAR, SENEGAL (15 February 2013) — Scientists at the Nairobi-based World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) and partners have developed specialized graphs that map out fire behavior, known as nomographs, ...