The word 'grasslands' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a wide area of vegetation consisting of grass and other plants. For example: "The Serengeti is one of the world's most famous grasslands."
A recent government report documents five types of degradation: soil; trees; shrubs; grasslands and water sources.
Along with the grasslands and herds of livestock, livelihoods have all but dried up.
The carrot is visible not far from the crying monk's monastery: new expressways across the vast grasslands, new roads to remote villages, better housing for monks and restorations to their prayer-halls.
Those in modern African grasslands are less selective and ¹³C is thus more abundant in their molecules.
The rate is consistent across most of the world's major "biomes"—such as grasslands, boreal forest and tropical moist forest.
They are certainly darker than grasslands smothered in snow, and thus they can absorb more of the sun's heat than vegetation which might otherwise cover the same stretch of land.
When at last the road heads away from the sparsely populated grasslands of Inner Mongolia, the lorries thin out dramatically.
The problem is the potentially explosive growth in demand for transport worldwide and the relative paucity of obvious technological fixes.John RhysLondonSIR – Yes, America is the largest producer of greenhouse gases, but it is also, with its expansive forests and grasslands, one of the largest absorbers of greenhouse gases.
Thus, Dr Bala's model can be told to replace all the world's forests with shrubby grasslands, and left alone to work out how such a change would alter greenhouse-gas concentrations and how that, in turn, would influence the temperature in different places.When Dr Bala ordered global clearcutting, the model calculated that the atmosphere's carbon-dioxide levels would roughly double by 2100.
LOCAL legend has it that the beauty of the grasslands in Xilin Gol, a prefecture in eastern Inner Mongolia, so captivated the 13th-century warrior Genghis Khan that he planned to settle down there once his battles were over.
YOU might expect July 14th to be a day of riotous celebration in Okemah, a tiny town nestling in the rolling grasslands of eastern Oklahoma.
