savannahs

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The world's vegetation, from the Amazon rainforest to the savannahs of sub-Saharan Africa, acts as a sink that removes the toxic pollutant from the air.

From Science Daily • Feb. 12, 2024

Otherwise-tropical areas can experience drying, causing rivers to disappear, lakes to turn into swamps, jungles into savannahs, and grasslands into deserts.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Since then there have been efforts to reintroduce these cats to India’s savannahs.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 7, 2022

However, in African savannahs the number of wildfires decreased over the same period, because of land use changes, including the expansion of farming.

From BBC • Jul. 17, 2022

In the savannahs and forests they inhabited, high-calorie sweets were extremely rare and food in general was in short supply.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari