For 75 years, grasslands research conducted just outside Pietermaritzburg, South Africa has informed policy makers and farmers about sustainable management, while training generations of students.

Human evolution is tightly connected to the environment and landscape of Africa, where our ancestors first emerged. According to the traditional scientific narrative, Africa was once a verdant idyll ...

Today, the Songhor fossil site in western Kenya is covered by a mixture of grass and trees adjacent to a modern river. Evidence from this site indicates that it was likely a relatively closed tropical ...

Ambitious tree-planting projects that aim to restore forests in Africa could inadvertently harm grasslands and savannahs by introducing too much shade. This may prevent smaller plants from ...

For 75 years, grasslands research conducted just outside Pietermaritzburg, South Africa has informed policy makers and farmers about sustainable management, while training generations of students.

Laura M MacLatchy receives funding from the US National Science Foundation, the LSB Leakey Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation and the University of Michigan. Dan Peppe receives funding from ...

Three fossilized bones from Morotopithecus: a vertebra, part of a jaw and a femur. Credit: L. MacLatchy and J. Kingston Three fossilized bones from Morotopithecus: a vertebra, part of a jaw and a ...