savannahs
Example Sentences
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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
Twenty million years ago, our immediate ancestors probably still lived in the trees, later descending because the forests receded during a major ice age and were replaced by grassy savannahs.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
