In the wet season, the weather is warm and a savanna receives as much as 50 inches of rain. But during the dry season, it can be extremely hot, and rainfall will amount to only four inches each month.

Australia is taking big steps to manage wildfires to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in its vast savanna landscapes. Two new savanna fire management ...

The Top End of Australia's Northern Territory contains an extensive, awe-inspiring expanse of tropical savanna landscapes. It ...

In the African savanna region October signals the beginning of the dry season and - ironically - Mother Nature marks this with a series of violent thunderstorms, followed by a strong, dry wind.

Savanna fire management involves strategically burning grasslands early in the dry season, purportedly to reduce the chance of large, intense, more carbon-intensive fires later in the season.

During the dry season, they use their tusks to dig up dry ... creates pathways for smaller animals to move through, and in the savanna, they uproot trees and eat saplings, which helps keep the ...

Most of this planned savanna burning occurs from May to July, in the cool, dry months of the early dry season. But at Kakadu National Park, rangers and traditional owners have also conducted ...