savanna
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Deforestation also decreased in the Cerrado -- a vast, biodiverse savanna south of the Amazon.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
Although some savanna areas saw increases due to shrub growth, these gains were far too small to balance the losses.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 13, 2026
The research used forest inventory data from 2,700 plots across the country, ranging from cool moist forests to dry savanna.
From Barron's ● Jan. 6, 2026
Prof Hansen described the new results as "frightening", and warned of the possible "savannisation" of the rainforest, where old-growth tropical forests die back and permanently switch to savanna.
From BBC ● May 21, 2025
Crisscrossing the savanna are networks of earthen fish weirs: interconnected low berms that change direction, zigzag-style, every thirty to a hundred feet.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Capybaras aren’t native to Mexico; they are South American, occupying savannas and vegetated areas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026
Nerlekar, a plant scientist, recognized many of those plants as species still common in today's savannas.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 1, 2026
The scale of the increase varied across the four different biomes surveyed, with the sharpest rise in tropical savannas.
From Barron's ● Jan. 6, 2026
This giraffe lives in the open savannas and wooded grasslands of Kenya, Somalia, and Ethiopia.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2025
While the savannas and mangroves of coastal southern New Guinea are fairly similar to those of northern Australia, other habitats of the hemi-continents differ in almost all major respects.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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