Google is letting the public see what elephant conservation looks like through a whole new lens: Street View. Thanks to an initiative with conservation group Save the Elephants, everyone can get a ...

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 ...

Regina Bailey is a science writer, educator, and board-certified registered nurse. Her work has been featured in "Kaplan AP Biology" and "The Internet for Cellular and Molecular Biologists." The ...

The savannas of Africa may have become the cradle of human evolution millions of years earlier than thought, researchers suggest. These rolling grasslands would have nurtured our ancestors through ...

The dictionary defines the word savanna as a “grassland containing scattered trees.” In my mind, when I picture such an area, I visualize the savannas of East Africa where once, and in some areas ...

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 ...

Elephant populations across Africa’s savannas are plummeting reveals the most comprehensive elephant survey ever conducted. Backed by philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, the two-year ...

New York, NY and Hyderabad (India) October 12, 2012—A new report published today by Panthera confirms that widespread illegal hunting and the bushmeat trade occur more frequently and with greater ...

Lyndon Estes receives funding from NASA, National Science Foundation, Princeton University, the Army Corps of Engineers, and NORAD. Tim Searchinger receives funding from the David & Lucille Packard ...