Wild pollinators especially do well on grasslands, which are usually more than just grass, and 97% of Europe's grasslands have disappeared since World War II, Potts said.
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Grasslands and Plains are much better than jungles or swamps.
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Academic Arts Theater, Westchester Community College, 75 Grasslands Road. sunywcc.
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The Sawmill fire destroyed 47,000 acres of grasslands in 2017.
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Californians are drawn to views of mountains, forests, and grasslands.
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Where grasslands once dominated the landscape, temperate forests crept in.
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Grasslands and grazing animals, he pointed out, had evolved together.
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The concerns over encroaching grasslands aren't limited to the West.
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In some places, woodlands would simply give way to grasslands.
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Forests, woodlands and grasslands hold much of Earth's terrestrial carbon.
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Sangke Grasslands Journal SANGKE GRASSLANDS, China — The campsite called Norden here on the Tibetan plateau is not quite as spare as the tent homes of nomads who drive yaks across these wind-scrubbed pastures.
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Maria Pointer: Just envision nothing here, but grasslands and a shack.
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Thus, the existence of extensive grasslands would favor some larger species.
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Right now, that means working with ranchers to improve cattle-grazing practices on American grasslands, begetting better soil health, cleaner waterways, and more carbon sequestration since healthy grasslands pull an enormous amount of carbon from the air.
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The recent Woolsey Fire, south of Montecito, largely burned scrublands and grasslands.
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For months, these bones lay undisturbed in the grasslands like buried treasure.
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No one knows precisely why, but grasslands throughout California are bleeding carbon.
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The land is approximately one-third grasslands and two-thirds rolling timberlands.
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A nomadic Tibetan, she also grew up in the grasslands of Hongyuan.
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Until the mid-20th century, livestock were only raised on native grasslands.
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It took decades for young spruce and prairie grasslands to crop up.
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We've also used it on grasslands to herd prey for easier slaughter.
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These projects include preserving bird sanctuaries, community tree building, and protecting grasslands.
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But the earliest humans, wandering the open grasslands, had nowhere to hide.
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His three children were all born after he had left the grasslands.
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So are the forests, grasslands and other wild ecosystems of the world.
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There are the national forests and grasslands overseen by the US Forest Service.
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The face-planting fox in the gif above featured in the "Grasslands" episode.
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Wildfires are consuming our forests and grasslands faster than we can replace them.
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Climates and environments changed, replacing forests with grasslands and more diverse mammalian species.
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A Maasai cattle herder surveys the grasslands of the Serengeti plains in Tanzania.
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The Forestry and Grasslands administration did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
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Oil and gas is currently being developed on 22019 national forests and grasslands.
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The vast grasslands of North America don't get enough rain to sustain trees.
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" It was July, and Ms. Yeshi said some of the grasslands looked "shaved.
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Wildfires have burned almost 5 million acres of woods and grasslands this year.
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He traversed the sensitive ecosystems know as the Páramo, remarkably biodiverse mountain grasslands.
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That is what scientists call the mysterious bald spots speckled across Namibia's grasslands.
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And drought plus extreme heat means forests and grasslands are turned to kindling.
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Tibetans graze their yak in the grasslands of the high Tibetan plateau in Tibet.
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Grazing land—for example, non-arable grasslands or woodlands—isn't suitable for growing food.
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Wildfires are particularly common in places with higher densities of dry woods or grasslands.
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The swift urbanization of grasslands, forests, and farms was also reflected in the maps.
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The BLM is sort of like the Forest Service but for grasslands and deserts.
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Mangroves, Mediterranean forests, some grasslands and savannahs were among protected areas most at risk.
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That's the reason I do sheep: because, properly managed, livestock on grasslands builds soil.
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If grasslands burned entirely to the ground every year, the butterflies would become extinct.
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The new ministry will also manage allocation of rights to water, grasslands and forests.
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Forests, with help from oceans and grasslands, are the planet's soil-builders and rainmakers.
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And forests, like grasslands, insects and oxygen-producing microbes, were once a evolutionary innovation.
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But the cuts led some farmers to convert once-conserved grasslands back into farmland.
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He was drawn to the grasslands, he said, first by a love of horses.
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Rather than a forest, the sloth lived in the open grasslands of a savanna.
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Image: Kevin SandersUniformly spaced gaps called "fairy circles" often appear in the grasslands of Namibia.
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They're exceptionally rare, having only been spotted in the grasslands of Namibia in southwest Africa.
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For one thing, people are building increasingly closer to grasslands and forests that regularly burn.
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The bison's territory once stretched from the forests of Alaska to the grasslands of Mexico.
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That means limiting poaching, and giving the antelopes enough space to migrate across the grasslands.
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Once again, we bounced along base roads, but this time in flatter, more open grasslands.
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Think meadows, grasslands, a clearing in a forest, rolling hills with lots of wildlife nearby.
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For butterflies that call grasslands home, these fleeting fire refugium can be crucial to survival.
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The rolling grasslands of the sprawling Maratatu settlement appeared dotted with thousands of tiny igloos.
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Corn crakes usually migrate to spend the winter in the grasslands of sub-Saharan Africa.
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The Sahara emerged in northern Africa, while grasslands opened up in eastern and southern Africa.
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The Forest Service oversees 154 national forests and 20 grasslands, and has about 28,000 permanent employees.
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Its 350 acres of green space will include a grasslands ecology park, trails, and sports fields.
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It dominates these grasslands, outcompeting smaller rodents while doing its best to dodge foxes and snakes.
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And when the grasslands spread, some of them adapt to those conditions to become Alternate Hominids.
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Today, just 1-2% of that remains, echoing a decline in oak grasslands across the country.
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Now these rescued lions, tigers, bears, and leopards roam the grasslands of The Wild Animal Sanctuary.
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Our shared public inheritance — wildlife refuges, national parks, high deserts and grasslands — didn't happen by accident.
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They dream of the prairies of America and Hungary, which look like the grasslands of Australia.
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In sub-Saharan Africa, vast grasslands readily burn, ignited either by lightning or intentionally by humans.
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Grasslands may catch fire every year, and patches that survive one year typically burn the next.
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As herbivores disappeared, trees encroached into the park's formerly open grasslands, and predators became virtually nonexistent.
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That heat dried out vegetation and left huge swaths of forests and grasslands primed to ignite.
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It is the transition zone between wildlands — such as forests, grasslands and scrublands — and human development.
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Our planet's rapidly disappearing forests, wetlands and grasslands need to be preserved and restored wherever possible.
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In Paso Robles, hilltop wineries boast views of rolling green vineyards and oaks shade gold grasslands.
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Eleven thousand years ago, it would've been open landscape made up of grasslands, shrub and woodlands.
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In 1986 it bought Nachusa Grasslands, an area of prairie and former prairie land in Illinois.
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These deliberate burns created a landscape of open grasslands, so wildfires were smaller and less frequent.
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Surrounding the garden at Chatsworth is the Park, nearly a thousand acres of grasslands and forested ridges.
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The combination of factors leaves many cities several degrees warmer than the surrounding farmland, grasslands, or forests.
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Life on the sprawling grasslands precipitated a shift from individualistic ways of living to more cooperative ways.
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They provide a vital service to forests and grasslands, clearing out decaying brush and helping plants germinate.
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The hairdo's primary purpose is to intimidate other animals in the grasslands our not-fox calls home.
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In April 2017, an off-duty Border Patrol agent set off fireworks in the grasslands of Arizona.
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A growing population coupled by years of overgrazing and a regional drought devastated Laikipia's grasslands last year.
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But now Freshkills hosts an array of at-risk species, many of which need grasslands to thrive.
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She comes from a family of nomadic yak herders; she grew up in the grasslands of Mai'erma.
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They were alarmed at what they found: Deserts, grasslands, tropical and boreal forests are all rapidly disappearing.
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But as grasslands decreased from these disruptions, the Siberian unicorn may have been slowly edged into extinction.
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An example might be converting exhausted and abandoned pasture land back into the grasslands that preceded it.
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The animals are raised on pasture accredited by the Savory Institute, which is dedicated to regenerating grasslands.
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Up to 30 million bison once grazed the North American grasslands, shaping their environment in the process.
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That's what Chadden Hunter and his team had to do, during the shoot for this weekend's Grasslands episode.
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If you were a nomadic goatherd in the Mongolian grasslands, you might not even consider presbyopia a pathology.
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It'll all come down to some very flat grasslands, a dragon, and a lot of flammable human bodies.
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The vehicle is slated to touch down in the grasslands of Kazakhstan at 8:40AM ET on Sunday.
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Our brains were evolved to survive in the grasslands and keep away from predators and stuff like that.
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They live in black tents fashioned from yak hair and rotate around the grasslands according to the seasons.
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They are one of the reasons why we're able to explain now why these grasslands are so important.
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The new habitats blend with existing ones, from mature cottonwood forests to grasslands, to create a patchy mosaic.
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For early studies of fire refugia, ecologists hiked through forests and grasslands, inspecting islands that withstood surrounding flames.
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Backyard soil can lock in more planet-warming emissions than soils found in native grasslands or urban forests.
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And the reservations are often located on grasslands or abutting forests that have a high potential for wildfires.
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Spotted guinea fowl raced off the road in clunky, diagonal spurts as we drove through the tall grasslands.
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Second, we need to protect forests, grasslands, oceans, and other ecosystems that store vast amounts of carbon dioxide.
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Significant losses span every biome, with grasslands showing the steepest bird declines and total losses of 2628 percent.
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Planting trees, restoring grasslands, and protecting coastlines aren't a get-out-of-jail-free card for global warming.
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The affected areas aren't overgrown pine forests, but grasslands and other coastal or near-coastal shrublands, known as chaparral.
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Simply put, hotter climes suck moisture out of the land, leaving profoundly dried out, tinder-ready grasslands and forests.
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This sets the stage for profoundly dry grasslands, scrublands, and forest, which are likely to ignite with any spark.
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Raised in the nomadic grasslands of Mai'erma, she says she eventually wants to return to life as a nomad.
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It's the prairies and grasslands that serve as a breadbasket to the world and provide habitat for innumerable species.
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Meanwhile in the northern grasslands, farmers invoke the ghost of the project to explain all kinds of unrelated mischief.
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Under the plan, nomads herding animals on grasslands newly classified as "nongrazing pastures" are offered subsidies to resettle elsewhere.
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The monument protects a series of major lava fields and other geological formations, as well as some sagebrush grasslands.
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Keystone species have since been identified in forests, in grasslands, in the ocean and even in the human gut.
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His family grazed cattle on thousands of acres of rolling grasslands until the 1960s, when they sold the ranch.
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The sites ranged from forests to grasslands to open spaces, a category that includes parks, golf courses and cemeteries.
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Archaeological evidence suggests they may have hunted for woolly rhino and other big game that ranged over the grasslands.
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It now plans to "proactively promote" nature-based solutions such as reforestation and the expansion of grasslands and wetlands.
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Across Europe, between 1950 and 2010, amid rapid postwar reconstruction, woods and grasslands grew by roughly 150,000 square miles.
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The University of California, Merced, rises apparition-like out of a landscape of cow pastures, cotton fields and grasslands.
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Xinjiang is a frontier territory of mountains, grasslands and deserts that makes up one-sixth of China's land mass.
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Preserving healthy grasslands in Badlands National Park will give all birds the best chance possible to survive and thrive.
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It also included targets to improve soil quality, reduce overuse of pesticides and fertilizer, and tackle overgrazing on China's grasslands.
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Most of its lands are far away from major population centers and consist of deserts and grasslands—not exactly destinations.
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In worst-case scenarios (say, burning willow grown on grasslands in Europe), it's possible to never even achieve negative emissions.
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The guide drives right up to a breeding herd of elephants in the grasslands and promptly switches off the engine.
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Throughout the Corn Belt's periphery, grasslands and shrublands, wildlife habitat and high-erosion zones have all come under the plow.
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"Instead spiders appear to play a significant ecological role as predators of insects in forests and undisturbed grasslands," Nyffeler wrote.
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On any given day he might wander outside and face a vista of rolling hills and grasslands that never changed.
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The journey to their wintering grounds, primarily in the pampas grasslands of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay, is thousands of kilometers.
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SQUINT AT THE grasslands of northern Mozambique and they look a bit like the cerrado, a savannah in central Brazil.
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Hundreds of koalas have been burnt to a crisp in this year's unusually devastating seasonal bushfires in the Australian grasslands.
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Others shown to be under high pressure despite their protected status include tropical coniferous forests and flooded grasslands and savannas.
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Once commonly found on North America's grasslands, Savannah sparrow populations are on the decline as their natural habitat has dwindled.
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Growing up on a giant sheep ranch in the remote grasslands of Australia can shape a young girl's whole life.
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Nebraska, with its grasslands, is a major habitat for birds, whose population has declined precipitously over the past several decades.
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The loss of grasslands due to escalating cultivation, rampant use of agricultural chemicals, and climate change is the primary culprit.
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On the other hand, planting new trees where they don't naturally grow — like grasslands — can actually harm the local ecosystems.
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The Chinese government has also tried to limit the movements of herders, saying their animals are turning grasslands into desert.
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The area is famed for its four-seasons-in-a day-climate and pristine rivers, lakes, deserts, grasslands and glaciers.
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The sticky asphalt was a death trap for the animals that roamed the fertile grasslands 10,000 to 40,000 years ago.
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But this year's winter has been especially harsh in southern Peru with snow falls continually covering grasslands and freezing creeks.
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Cutting down forests and paving over grasslands destroys organisms that naturally breathe in and hold onto greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.
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I'm sure that there is a long list of logging companies waiting to log chaparral shrublands and oak woodlands and grasslands.
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It's not hard to see what lured Getty photojournalist Kevin Frayer to the remote mountains and grasslands of the Tibetan Plateau.
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BAYIN was three when he moved from the eastern grasslands of Inner Mongolia to Chifeng, a city of some 1m people.
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In September, Dickey, the dad-to-be, pleaded guilty to accidentally starting the Sawmill fire that torched 2911,000 acres of grasslands.
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Their headquarters is lined with wooden cases full of insect specimens found in the surrounding grasslands, dunes and woods, meticulously labelled.
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Presumably some of them would have evolved to become cursorial, like some mammals did, when grasslands took over in the Neogene.
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In eastern and southern Arica, hominins moved into open habitats, eventually reaching arid grasslands — places as daunting for survival as Fongoli.
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Tigers occupy a variety of habitats from tropical forests, evergreen forests, woodlands and mangrove swamps to grasslands, savannah and rocky country.
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Native Americans lived in Yellowstone, hunted its animals, and even set fire to the grasslands and forests to clear dense undergrowth.
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The newly redesigned boxes depict the animals that used to be in cages in the original design as wandering in grasslands.
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Unfortunately, the average person's understanding of wildfires is minimal — even those living in the urban wildfire zones, near forests or grasslands.
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The metallic calls of red-winged blackbirds can be heard at marshes, shores, grasslands, and roadsides all over the United States.
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Lobsang Tayang's monastery, Amarbayasgalant, is a sprawling complex deep in the endless grasslands, 35 km (22 miles) from the nearest road.
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In these new grasslands, ancient horses needed to move at faster speeds to evade predators and cover more ground for grazing.
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Grasslands are disappearing and bird populations are plummeting so that people can eat meat and corporations can make tons of money.
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Historically, the pint-sized birds inhabited the grasslands of central Florida that have been lost to developments and farmland, Smith said.
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The study also considered planting trees on savannas and grasslands, where planting non-native trees could cause problems for local species.
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And the demand is understandably high — which has led to dangerous overgrazing in Mongolia and essential grasslands being turned into deserts.
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The group chanted across windswept grasslands and a protective buffer of dozens of law enforcement officials, some of them on horseback.
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For example, the 2018 farm bill included funding to pay farmers to set aside grasslands, wetlands and forests for permanent protection.
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Allred Dr., Sam's home, is still quasi-rural, a landscape of vacant grasslands and little groves of bent, twisted oak trees.
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I met Hainar in the Natali grasslands, located in the northern section of Xinjiang, a Chinese province that borders of Kazakhstan.
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Old age explains why Sudan is living out his last days isolated in a private enclosure, fenced off from the surrounding grasslands.
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PS4 exclusive Ghost of Tsushima quickly traded its beautiful grasslands and horse riding for some close-up action of dismemberment and impaling.
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A segment on the Serengeti in east-central Africa will explain why the ecosystem's forests, swamps and grasslands are lush and green.
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Some of the most destructive, deadliest wildfires occur in Southern California, a place not defined by pine forests, but shrubs and grasslands.
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A similar strategy was employed on Sunday night by the harvest mouse against the owl on the Planet Earth 2: Grasslands card.
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On the second day security was looser and Tibetans pitched coloured tents and picnicked on the Batang grasslands south of the city.
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Forests, grasslands, peatlands, mangroves and a few other types of ecosystems pull the most carbon from the air per acre of land.
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When forest, wetlands, grasslands and other landscapes are converted or destroyed to build a housing development or shopping center, birds are displaced.
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These yellow-breasted songsters of America's wide open landscapes depend on healthy grasslands that play an important role in filtering water runoff.
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The couple enjoyed a sunset cruise along the creeks that wind through the vast grasslands, stopping to try their hand at fishing.
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That means putting more thought into how we cultivate pastures, grasslands, and forests could help bring down the country's total greenhouse gas emissions.
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By the end of the Pleistocene, Ireland's grasslands, upon which the Great Elk had thrived for thousands of years, had turned to forest.
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The SPLAT technique had been tested only in flat grasslands in Utah, and adapting it to the mountainous topography of Sagehen proved tricky.
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Across the US, developers have continued to stretch communities deeper into forests, mountains, and grasslands, creating what's known as a wildland–urban interface.
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On Sunday, Planet Earth II broadcast its "Grasslands" episode, which dove into all the lovely flora and fauna of the planet's grassy plains.
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"In a century or so, we might see a retreat of forest lands, and an expansion of sagebrush, grasslands and deserts," MacDonald added.
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In recent years, the central government has implemented a program, "returning pastures to grasslands," which it says aims to protect the region's environment.
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Those who occupied grasslands now classified as "pastures where grazing is temporarily banned" or "rotation pastures" are compensated if they follow state regulations.
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In the grasslands of Tagong, six hours away from Chengdu, most people are nomads and live in tents rotating according to the seasons.
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As do most things that are highly symmetrical and otherwise exacting, the so-called fairy circles populating the grasslands of Namibia look intentional.
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The Forest Service, a part of the Agriculture Department, is responsible for managing 154 national forests and 20 grasslands in the United States.
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As a result, over 220006,2202 projects have been funded on more than 2628 million acres of wetlands and grasslands in all 28500 states.
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Today some 250 species of ants in tropical forests, deserts and grasslands throughout the Americas build fungi gardens in climate-controlled chambers underground.
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Argentina's worst plague of locusts in more than half a century is threatening sunflower and cotton crops, as well as grasslands for cattle grazing.
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On March 14, approximately 6,000 miles from your desk, the first mission of the ExoMars program will launch from the grasslands of Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
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Over the Southern Ocean and remote Australian grasslands, there are flying robots — drones, actually, but they're not for purposes of counterterrorism or Amazon deliveries.
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Long ago, the grasslands of Napa Valley were dotted with groves of towering, centuries-old valley oaks, which had broad canopies and pendulous branches.
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Kaskil's family moved with mammoths across the Siberian grasslands, paid by the carbon traders to play doctor and ambassador for these new-old beasts.
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The restored systems incorporate "grey" infrastructure such as PVC pipes, water valves and fences and "green" elements such as restoration of grasslands and wetlands.
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This increase starts about 7m years ago and in turn coincides with a period when much of Earth's vegetation shifted from forests to grasslands.
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This year, Google is celebrating Earth Day with five different Google Doodles illustrating the planet's major biomes: tundra, forest, grasslands, desert, and coral reefs.
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More than 100 years ago, President Theodore Roosevelt created the U.S. Forest Service to manage America's 193 million acres of national forests and grasslands.
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These social, almost cow-like creatures are native to South America, where they spend their lives moving back and forth between grasslands and water.
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About 36,000 acres (14,103 hectares) of drought-parched grasslands and timber have gone up in flames since the Ute Park blaze erupted on Thursday.
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His fetlocks puffed from galloping, his tail curled upward From the joy of feeling fleet across the tinted grasslands And the gold savannahs there.
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In the grasslands area of Lhagong, called Tagong in Chinese, monks helped residents draft paperwork when they wanted to protest a large lithium mine.
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One example is the black-footed ferret, an endangered weasel-like carnivoret once thought to be extinct that inhabits the grasslands of the West.
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One family in Inner Mongolia packed up its yurt and migrated elsewhere in the grasslands for a better web connection, a Chinese magazine reported.
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There were thousands of Tennessee coneflowers blooming all over the grasslands, too, and like the other wildflowers they were covered with bumblebees and butterflies.
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Scientists found that taking good care of grasslands, soils and forests in the U.S. could significantly offset greenhouse gas emissions and protect against flooding.
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Some of that involves basic conservation, turning vulnerable forests and grasslands into protected areas and reserves — particularly the most ecologically valuable or irreplaceable areas.
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One of the largest sources of Bitcoin can be found in the grasslands of Inner Mongolia, despite Chinese skepticism over its potential for risk.
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Trilobites With its bone-dry grasslands and oppressive heat, the middle of the Namib Desert may seem like a strange place to go fishing.
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The municipality is a rural area with grasslands and herders that abuts Russia and lies immediately west of the region once known as Manchuria.
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But scientists say that reintroducing bison can once more shape the grasslands, and help restore the diverse wildlife that makes these environments so special.
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National forests and national grasslands, managed by the United States Forest Service for multiple uses, amount to 193 million acres, mainly in the West.
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Additionally, using herbicides and insecticides will be limited or banned in habitats such as grasslands, orchard fields and along the shores of Germany's waterways.
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Thousands of donated hay bales, to feed surviving animals bereft of their grasslands, have been rolling into town on the backs of tractor-trailers.
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In warm months, the grasslands burst into luxuriant green, and Tibetan and Mongolian herders have for centuries guided yaks and goats over the pastures.
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It turns out only about half of human carbon dioxide emissions reach the atmosphere; the rest is soaked up by forests, grasslands, and mangroves.
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Hotter, drier conditions have sent the natural fire cycle on which the forests and grasslands of Alaska and the western states depend into a tailspin.
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The Little Missouri National Grasslands feature colorful and unspoiled badlands, a rugged terrain eroded by wind and water, and both long and short prairie grasses.
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And once started, wildfires have become more damaging because we keep building in harm's way: Californians are drawn to views of mountains, forests, and grasslands.
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I would also want to make farming more space-efficient, so we could leave more space for grasslands, biodiversity, and have more greenery around us.
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Hike across the Torres del Paine National Park, in Chile's Patagonia region, which has everything from ragged mountains to bright blue icebergs to golden grasslands.
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Why it matters: Fires are a natural part of Earth's ecosystem — they clear dead trees from forests and keep plant growth in check in grasslands.
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Such forested grasslands were once abundant across the western US, but agriculture, lumber industry, and fire suppression have combined to bring them close to extinction.
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Frank, who logged his first significant directing credits by helming every episode of Godless, takes advantage of the vistas and grasslands his setting affords him.
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Imagine for a moment, a stunning landscape of carved sandstone canyons dotted with ancient dwellings, peaceful forests and grasslands cherished for indigenous subsistence and ceremony.
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He has seen firsthand how federal mismanagement of national forests, grasslands, and parks has led to environmental destruction, local economic decline, and wasted federal resources.
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But the real news here is the inclusion of her voice in the mix, a towering, crackling sound amidst the rolling grasslands of her instrumentation.
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In 22015, Mr. Ehrlich came up with the idea for a grass-fed, organic beef importing business, Verde Farms, while visiting the grasslands of Argentina.
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Another complementary USAID-funded project contributes to managing grasslands, and improving veterinary care and training among traders, which increases livestock prices and long-term impact.
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First, the crude must travel from the conservative heart of the Canadian oil industry in Alberta across mountains and grasslands to the liberal West Coast.
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But even nature is a contested term these days, especially in Brazil, where the rain forest and grasslands were seen as obstacles to be conquered.
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He grew up in the nomadic grasslands of Hongyuan County in the Amdo region of Tibet where his family tended to a herd of yaks.
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There are several "conserve the grasslands" programs that use degradation and desertification — assessment methods not mentioned — to remove rural residents, particularly herders, from the land.
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Ripple said he strongly supports natural climate solutions, which focus on the conservation and restoration of forests, grasslands, and wetlands, in conjunction with reducing emissions.
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But only in the 1990s did the scientists start to pay serious attention to the ecological role that fire refugia play in forests and grasslands.
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The Ministry of Natural Resources will gain power over urban and township planning, as well as management of water, grasslands, forests, wetlands, and maritime resources.
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Californians are drawn to views of mountains, forests, and grasslands and are building ever closer to these features that often have a propensity to burn.
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It has since been converted into a park with grasslands, wetlands and a totally different ecology from the one it served as an active landfill.
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It's a technique the group had used on other grasslands and the reasoning behind it is simple: "Prairies have co-evolved with bison," explains Bach.
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In the 85033s, 25 million people lived in the so-called "wildland-urban interface" — the areas in and around forests, grasslands and other natural amenities.
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When Beahrs read Twain's book, he realized that the foods were regional, fresh from the grasslands, woods and waters that were native to the community.
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Well, the meat in question all comes from cattle ranches on what's known as the Southern Cone grasslands, which range from Brazil down to Argentina.
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The shift from floodplain to grasslands had a profound effect on the flora and fauna that lived there, and thus the humans who depended on both.
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His neighbours, who are in their thirties, say they miss the grasslands, but their 12-year-old daughter is happy "anywhere where there is Wi-Fi".
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The tracks went outside too, winding all over his garden in the front yard, under the wooden fence, and onto the wild grasslands of the backyard.
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And as the search gets bigger each year across the Himalayas, so does the environmental impact, as grasslands used by livestock are raked over with tools.
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Many lack the skills to find work in cities; those remaining on the grasslands often struggle to make a living now that grazing has been curtailed.
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Now in his 50s, he still performs, travelling from stage to stage across the Mongolian grasslands, counting with his fingers the 100-yuan bills he earns.
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Northern Ireland, which has been the backdrop for everything from Winterfell to Dorne to the Dothraki grasslands, has arguably benefitted from Game of Thrones the most.
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Saiga antelopes, whose bulbous noses recall the tauntaun creatures in Star Wars, live in the grasslands of central Asia, from Hungary all the way across Mongolia.
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In grasslands from central Canada to Texas, a species known as thirteen-lined ground squirrels can adjust their body temperature to match the air around them.
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But that expansion has pushed crop production into grasslands and other previously uncultivated land, hurting biodiversity and reducing the land's ability to store carbon, scientists warn.
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Dr. Roberts' analysis showed that the mammals had a diet of plants found in grasslands, suggesting that rainfall, where they lived, occurred during the warm season.
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The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) says that in recent years the Great Plains has converted more grasslands to agriculture than the Brazilian Amazon has converted rainforest.
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"In the grasslands, they are free and they are self-assured," said Meng Xiangjing, a professor in population and development studies at Renmin University in Beijing.
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The expansive grasslands of the Canadian Prairies cover almost 700,000 square miles of western Canada, and consume much of the rural parts of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba.
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"Our estimates of the global annual prey kill imply that spiders exert considerable predation pressure on insect populations, especially in forests and grasslands," wrote Nyffeler and Birkhofer.
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An abrupt boundary at the edge of the city marks the end of the concrete and the beginning of the infinite grasslands that stretch to the horizon.
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In this region, characterized by mountains, forest and montane grasslands, the bird, known as the mariti or matendera, was once much easier to see - and to hear.
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Designed to slow the movement of water through grasses and soils, they replenished aquifers and springs and helped the grasslands retain more water, allowing biodiversity to flourish.
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"We work in the Valdivian rainforest and have protected just under 800,000 acres so far, and then the Patagonia Park project which is steppe grasslands," she explains.
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The WSJ's cases mostly describe encounters with the red-winged blackbird, one of the country's most abundant native birds, found in grasslands, wetlands, parks, and on roadsides.
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While the Nefud Desert is now a veritable sea of sand, it was hospitable when this individual lived - a grasslands teeming with wildlife alongside a freshwater lake.
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Data shows that drylands, including deserts and grasslands, take up about 41 percent of the world's land surface and are home to more than 2 billion people.
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This premiere revolves around the horse-riding Amazon warriors who roamed the Eurasian grasslands and protected their vast territory from the powers of Greece, China and Persia.
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Other landscapes study nature's expansiveness along wooded pathways or across open fields, as sunlight ebbs and encroaching shadows turn wooden barns and wind-tossed grasslands into silhouettes.
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Although some cattle graze on dry, native grasslands, most beef production relies on wetter pastures or croplands that have been converted from forests, wetlands, and other habitats.
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Turn the sandy wastes and generic grasslands into anything more, what's expected of games today, and, yes, there'll be a warmness, a richness, to this world of giants.
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On camelback in the wide-open grasslands, the eyes line easily with the horizon, which means their eyes take in distance, proximity, an unpixelated spectrum, and unsimulated movement.
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By adapting to this semi-arid grasslands in the Arabian interior, these early humans were setting the stage for a larger, more global expansion, according to the researchers.
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Gusty winds quickly drove it through about a square mile of brush and grasslands, oak, pine and timber near Mendocino National Forest, Mendocino County Undersheriff Matthew Kendall said.
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As of Friday afternoon, 28.6 major wildfires - some encompassing several smaller blazes merged together - had consumed nearly 23.5,20153 acres of dry brush, grasslands and trees across eight counties.
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When we invest in wildlife habitat and restore our waterways, forests, wetlands, and grasslands, we create millions of jobs in parts of our nation that need them most.
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The thick reeds and vital wetlands around its basin provided vast freshwater reserves, breeding grounds for fish, fertile soil for agriculture, and grasslands where farmers grazed their animals.
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America's federal public lands — our national forests, national parks and the Bureau of Land Management's grasslands, sagebrush steppe and deserts – never belonged to the states to begin with.
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There are large tracts of parkland, including the 218-acre Sonoma Valley Regional Park and the 3123-acre Bouverie Preserve, where riparian woodlands meet grasslands and evergreen forest.
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Congress should also support natural solutions, like restoration of forests, wetlands and grasslands, as part of an infrastructure package to both improve community resilience and increase carbon sinks.
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Not until the late 19th century did settlers realize that the expansive tracts of grasslands made perfect grazing grounds for sheep, and Patagonia has never been the same.
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The limestone glade is ringed by a kind of prairie — grasslands blooming outrageously with wildflowers: gray-headed coneflowers and Queen Anne's lace and butterfly weed and pasture roses.
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Last year the Forest Service, which manages nearly 200 million acres of woodlands and grasslands, proposed trimming the amount of environmental review needed for many forest management decisions.
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Millions of Americans want to live in what experts call the wildland-urban interface — quiet, scenic realms where towns and cities end and forests, grasslands or scrublands begin.
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Policymakers have to make sure that efforts to protect forests or convert marginal farmland back into carbon-rich grasslands don't just spur deforestation or more intensive farming elsewhere.
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In an effort to preserve national forests and grasslands, REI will make a donation to the National Forest Foundation every time you make a purchase with your card.
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For the saiga, an ancient animal that once roamed the grasslands of the world with the woolly mammoth and the saber-toothed tiger, the outbreak was potentially catastrophic.
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It's here in this David Attenborough follow-up to his 2006 series, which embeds with wildlife in assorted locales — islands, mountains, jungles, deserts, grasslands and even in cities.
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From at least 10,000 years ago, coyotes lived in grasslands, prairies and deserts, as far east as the Mississippi and Ohio rivers and as far west as California.
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At Grasslands in August — America's first official marijuana festival within a major music festival, San Francisco's Outside Lands — the Peak was the device of choice for many vendors.
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But because Houston is one of America's most sprawling cities with such little water-absorbing grasslands, rain water has nowhere to go when it comes down this hard.
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In the U.S., we need to take better care of our grasslands, some of which are in federal and state hands and some of which are held privately.
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Image: Jen GuytonFound at the intersection of grasslands and the desert, Namibia's Fairy Circles are hexagon-shaped patches of bare soil that are surrounded by rings of tall grass.
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Researchers also have identified cattle grazing as one way to reduce wildfire risk for some areas, such as grasslands where there's a constant threat of lightning strikes causing fires.
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Its trailers were thrust out to audiences with the words "Never Drive Alone" written in bold red between scenes of dense cities, endless deserts and sprawling middle-American grasslands.
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It was a cold, grey day in the hills of Virginia, more than 7,000 miles away from the cheetah's natural habitat in the dry grasslands of sub-Saharan Africa.
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Tibetan culture Many Tibetans also feel their native culture is under threat as the number of Chinese tourists visiting the region's yak-filled grasslands and snowy peaks has surged.
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In recent years, some scientists have begun to ask whether we can put some of that carbon back into the soil and into living ecosystems, like grasslands and forests.
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The concert's location—a fairground in the grasslands of Colombia's central Meta province—put foreign visitors in mind of Glastonbury or Woodstock, though the location was rather more remote.
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According to the organization, the land includes 640 acres of wetlands, hot and cold natural spring-water pools, sagebrush-grasslands, and playa that opens onto the Hualapai Flat valley.
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This manufactured demand for corn has led to millions of acres of delicate wetlands and grasslands being brought into production, a process that is damaging ecosystems and hurting biodiversity.
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The new rule would aim to "streamline" procedural requirements for oil and gas leasing and extraction from the 154 national forests and 20 grasslands managed by the Forest Service.
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The new rule would aim to "streamline" procedural requirements for oil and gas leasing and extraction from the 2628 national forests and 28503 grasslands managed by the Forest Service.
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These forests, deserts, mountains, seashores, and grasslands comprise some of our nation's most cherished landscapes, produce an abundance of natural resources, and provide the backdrop for countless recreational pursuits.
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The remote Castle Mountains National Monument, surrounded on three sides by the Mojave National Preserve, offers rocky peaks, native desert grasslands, Joshua trees, and pinyon pine and juniper forests.
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From his small town on the windswept grasslands of the Inner Mongolia region of China, Mr. Zhao, 27, scours the internet for fake news, pornography and calls to violence.
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These bushfires have been amplified by profoundly parched forests, brush, and grasslands — dried-out by a triple-whammy of record-breaking heat waves combined with drought and unrelenting winds.
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If resource use doubles by 2060, as predicted based on current trends, a further 10 percent of forests and 20 percent of habitats, such as grasslands, will disappear, it said.
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If it works, the project could bring back herds of northern whites that used to roam the grasslands of east and central Africa, where they were poached for their horns.
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The aromas wafting through the Tribeca Film Festival's VR Arcade, however, don't smell like a decomposing industry—they smell like the grasslands of Africa, the Amazon rainforest, and California redwoods.
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In February of each year, approximately eight months after the sex party, the lady beests drop their calves (also known as lion snacks) in the grasslands of the south Serengeti.
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Unfortunately, since then, the loss of biodiversity and the destruction of natural forests, grasslands, wetlands and coral reefs has accelerated, and 500,000 to 1,000,000 species are now threatened with extinction.
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My 363 Places list had actually featured another Zambian game park, Liuwa Plain National Park, which also has a Time + Tide property, in the far western grasslands of the country.
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Converting farmland into grasslands helps lock planet-warming carbon into the soil, but a recent study found that converting the land back to farmland releases carbon back into the atmosphere.
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As commodity trading increases and wheat farming expands, more and more grasslands are being plowed under and plied with chemicals, robbing birds of their natural habitat and polluting what's left.
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Trilobites Some 12,000 years ago, the saber-toothed cat stalked grasslands across the Americas, pouncing on unsuspecting horses and bison before sinking its ferocious fangs into their throats and bellies.
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While seeing lions, giraffes, and elephants up close was cool, it was nothing compared to witnessing the Great Wildebeest Migration — 1.5 million wildebeest traveling across Tanzania's grasslands to give birth.
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"If we don't use our resources wisely to turn those grasslands into a productive protein source for people, that's just inefficient and not good use of the land," said rancher Yanta.
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ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - With their alpine grasslands shrinking due to erratic rainfall and glacier retreat, herders in Peru's central Andes have decided that the future lies in reviving the past.
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Wallace Bay is a shallow finger of the Northumberland Strait that pokes eight miles into the red-soiled grasslands and spruce forests of Nova Scotia, ending in a National Wildlife Area.
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Wetter, warmer winters can have a similar effect by promoting growth of grasslands where locusts like to hang out (heavy rains can also wipe them out early in their development cycle).
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In a blog post on this year's drawings, doodler Sophie Diao says that she decided to do five to honor the Earth's major ecosystems: tundra, desert, coral reefs, grasslands, and forest.
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Grasslands dotted with guanacos, a cousin of the camel, give way to sprawling steppes and forests, deep-blue waterways and majestic snow-capped mountains at the doorsteps of breathtaking ice fields.
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BEIJING — One summer day, a Kazakh herder in northwest China noticed a giant black boulder that he did not remember seeing before in the grasslands where he raises sheep and cattle.
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"This controversial nomination would signify Unesco endorsement of China's forced relocation of Tibetan nomads, who have protected the grasslands and wildlife for centuries," said Matteo Mecacci, president of the Tibet organization.
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Human alterations to the planet's surface — like the conversion of most of the world's grasslands into pasture and crops — have transformed the environment in which all other species thrive or die.
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The researchers believe that the avalanche of cosmic energy in our atmosphere may have led to an increase in lightning strikes that sparked wildfires, turning the tree-filled forests into open grasslands.
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As more and more people sprawl out from California's expensive cities in search of scenic views and cheap real estate, they come into closer contact with forests and grasslands primed to burn.
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Then, over the next 300,000 years, they gradually dwarfed in size, living on the island's savannah-like grasslands alongside elephants, rats, and Komodo dragons until their mysterious disappearance some 50,000 years ago.
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The so-called Lodgepole Complex fire has so far laid waste to an estimated 270,000 acres (109,000 hectares) of sagebrush, grasslands and timber near the Missouri River in eastern Montana, Engrav said.
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There's an unexpectedly happy ending, too, to "Prairie Dog Song," which tells how this strange little North American species was wiped out of large swaths of the grasslands it once helped sustain.
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Sigurdsson's group has about 700 members interested in maintaining forest for many reasons: It can provide shelter for animals, conserve water, improve grasslands for grazing and add value as a timber source.
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Pu Zhiqiang headed for Sichuan, Hu Jia to the port city of Tianjin, He Depu to the grasslands of Inner Mongolia, and Zhang Baocheng to Sanya, a beach resort on Hainan Island.
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But it's crown jewel, a nearly 2,000-foot-deep, 2 million-year-old volcanic crater, sits amid the plains and includes every East African ecosystem: grasslands, forests, lakes — all teeming with wildlife.
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Here the Maghreb, the desert, the Sahel, the forest, the Savanna and grasslands, and the mountains and high fields, are the defining features of how different architectures throughout Africa can be witnessed.
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It is rarer still when that sighting occurs not in the grasslands of the Rockaways or Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, but in the decidedly less hospitable environment known as Rikers Island.
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There was a "100 percent chance" that a spark would ignite if it flew into the state's dry grasslands, she said, and any fire would spread rapidly because of the high winds.
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He brought the duo to the shady grasslands of Franklin Canyon in Los Angeles, where he posed them on a dirt road looking as if they were walking into an unknown future.
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Sometimes environments that are rich in biodiversity but low on trees, like grasslands and savannas, can get targeted as a good place to plant trees where they never belonged in the first place.
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Research shows the standard has caused grasslands and wetlands to be converted into farms to produce biofuels, said Emily Cassidy, a research analyst with the Environmental Work Group, which has criticized the RFS.
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Through our emails, a plan emerged: We would trek from Lukla to Tengboche Monastery in the Khumbu region, and we would visit Chitwan National Park, in the jungles and grasslands of southern Nepal.
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"I wanted to see the grasslands," says a woman from Kunming, 20103,000km to the south, who is posing for photos beside a giant bronze statue of a pointy-helmeted Mongolian warrior on horseback.
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Fairy circles have a lifecycle, becoming noticeable at about two meters in diameter and growing to be up to 12 meters in diameter before eventually giving in to the surrounding grasslands and assimilating.
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"Humans have been setting fires in grasslands for thousands of years, and then it kind of went out of style," says UC Davis ecologist Truman Young, who wasn't involved in this new work.
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But that's not their only value: They also protect coasts from storm surge, supporting inland mangroves and coastal grasslands that are mega-storage vaults for carbon and homes for large numbers of species.
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Our colleague Brad Plumer points to research that says better conservation of forests and grasslands in the United States could offset as much as 21 percent of the country's annual greenhouse gas emissions.
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Rather than penning up these animals in factory farms, allowing them to graze over wider pastures can help restore grasslands as cattle, sheep, and pigs aerate the soil and enrich it with manure.
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But in the last half-century, 73 million eastern meadowlarks and 65 million western meadowlarks have vanished as grasslands have been lost and water in many communities has become contaminated by agricultural runoff.
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It was the name given by traders crossing the oceanic Sahara centuries ago to the welcoming grasslands that marked the desert's southern rim, terrain that now includes modern Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Senegal.
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