For 75 years, grasslands research conducted just outside Pietermaritzburg, South Africa has informed policy makers and farmers about sustainable management, while training generations of students.

Human evolution is tightly connected to the environment and landscape of Africa, where our ancestors first emerged. According to the traditional scientific narrative, Africa was once a verdant idyll ...

Today, the Songhor fossil site in western Kenya is covered by a mixture of grass and trees adjacent to a modern river. Evidence from this site indicates that it was likely a relatively closed tropical ...

Ambitious tree-planting projects that aim to restore forests in Africa could inadvertently harm grasslands and savannahs by introducing too much shade. This may prevent smaller plants from ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Africa’s vast grasslands are well known for their iconic wildlife, but far less appreciated for the other ecosystem services they provide, ...

For 75 years, grasslands research conducted just outside Pietermaritzburg, South Africa has informed policy makers and farmers about sustainable management, while training generations of students.

Three fossilized bones from Morotopithecus: a vertebra, part of a jaw and a femur. Credit: L. MacLatchy and J. Kingston Three fossilized bones from Morotopithecus: a vertebra, part of a jaw and a ...