Grasslands are vast areas of natural vegetation that might include lush green grass running across miles and miles. They are seen as intermediaries between forests at one end and deserts at the other.

Numbers of Patagonian mara—rodents with rabbit-like ears, long legs and the body of a hoofed mammal—are now living in the Al Qudra Lakes, a desert oasis located 25 miles south of Dubai, United Arab ...

South Africa’s Drakensberg grasslands are one of five subtropical grassland ecoregions in the country. The rolling hills and mountains of the Drakensberg are an important water catchment area and the ...

Once a child who found solace in nature, Estes now dedicates his life to saving America’s most endangered ecosystem—Southeastern grasslands. Through the Southeastern Grasslands Institute (SGI ...

Different parts of the world refer to their grasslands by different names – for instance ‘savannah’ in Africa, ‘cerrado’ in South America, ‘prairie’ in North America, ‘steppe’ in central Asia, ‘meadow ...

Other types of grassland grasses include a much taller type called big bluestem, which grows with very deep roots in the wetter parts of North America ... native to the South American grasslands ...