When properly managed, savannas like the Serengeti are capable of capturing at least as much carbon as tropical rainforests.

That’s because East Africa’s primary growing season begins around mid-March, and the emerging plants are particularly vulnerable to locusts, says Anastasia Mbatia, the technical manager of ...

"There are many narratives about how agriculture began in east Africa, but there's not a lot of direct evidence of the plants themselves," said WashU's Natalie Mueller, an assistant professor of ...

Farmers in East Africa thought they knew adversity ... Officials in some of Africa’s most arid nations say these plants are robbing them of what meager pasture they have left.

The presence of plants endemic to the Middle East revealed the original focus ... completing migratory cycles between tropical Africa and Europe covering up to 15,000 km. The demographic explosion ...