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a broad area of level or rolling treeless country
stunning pictures of the giraffes and zebras roaming the grasslands of Africa
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Recent Examples of grasslands
The agency, which manages 193 million acres of American grasslands and forests, also operates or helps fund 14 regional avalanche centers, including the West Central Montana center.
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Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 23 Dec. 2024
The bird thrives in alpine grasslands, feeding on tussock grass by stripping its leaves to reach the soft bases.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
While mammoths were adapted to cold, open tundras and the grasslands of Europe, North America and Asia during the Ice Age, mastodons were found in woodlands and swampy areas across Central and North America.
—Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
But is the violent displacement of an Indigenous group, one that has sustained the Serengeti ecosystem and its lush grasslands over time, necessary for such environmental progress?
—Longreads, 18 Dec. 2024
Their latest release The Terrain Set, offers some basic terrain types like desert, ice, grasslands, beaches and more.
—Rob Wieland, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
This increase in fire speed may be due to climate change causing higher temperatures, stronger winds and dryer vegetation, and/or may be a result of more people living near grasslands and accidentally starting fires.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024
By century’s end, up to 20% of all Earth’s land could experience abrupt ecosystem transformation, such as forests becoming grasslands, with attendant extinction and collapse of ecosystems.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 10 Dec. 2024
The goal is to reduce fire risk in the community and regenerate fire-tolerant plant species, such as native grasslands.
—Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 8 Dec. 2024
Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 23 Dec. 2024
The bird thrives in alpine grasslands, feeding on tussock grass by stripping its leaves to reach the soft bases.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
While mammoths were adapted to cold, open tundras and the grasslands of Europe, North America and Asia during the Ice Age, mastodons were found in woodlands and swampy areas across Central and North America.
—Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
But is the violent displacement of an Indigenous group, one that has sustained the Serengeti ecosystem and its lush grasslands over time, necessary for such environmental progress?
—Longreads, 18 Dec. 2024
Their latest release The Terrain Set, offers some basic terrain types like desert, ice, grasslands, beaches and more.
—Rob Wieland, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
This increase in fire speed may be due to climate change causing higher temperatures, stronger winds and dryer vegetation, and/or may be a result of more people living near grasslands and accidentally starting fires.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024
By century’s end, up to 20% of all Earth’s land could experience abrupt ecosystem transformation, such as forests becoming grasslands, with attendant extinction and collapse of ecosystems.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 10 Dec. 2024
The goal is to reduce fire risk in the community and regenerate fire-tolerant plant species, such as native grasslands.
—Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 8 Dec. 2024
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“Grasslands.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grasslands. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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