Grasslands created opportunities.

The grasslands were sweeping away.

They also live in grasslands and forests.

They inhabit warm grasslands in Asia, Africa, Europe, and Australia.

The wilderness grasslands overflow. The hills are clothed with gladness.

The vast grasslands of Patagonia are turning to desert, as you see here.

Where oceans meet the shore, degradation of mangroves and grasslands jeopardizes our coastal communities.

The open grasslands were in many ways similar to the landscape of modern Africa.

Migrating eastward, following the grasslands, because that's what they were adapted to live on.

And you need the local people for that because these grasslands, once they start burning ...

For millions of years, on the grasslands of Africa, women commuted to work to gather their vegetables.

Output in South America, Southeast Asia, and Central Africa currently is being raised mainly by clearing tropical forests, grasslands, and wetlands.

This was an animal that basically kept the forest mixed with grasslands across the entire Europe and Asian continent, from Spain to Korea.

This was an animal that basically kept the forest mixed with grasslands across the entire Europe and Asian continent, from Spain to Korea.

And we are burning in Africa, every single year, more than one billion hectares of grasslands, and almost nobody is talking about it.

In addition to the delta and desert areas, there are grasslands and savannas, where blue wildebeest, antelopes, and other mammals and birds are found.

The transformation of grasslands into deserts due to deforestation, encroachment into forests for subsistence farming, overgrazing, and loss of biodiversity and soil threaten the entire continent.

In less elevated regions, particularly the lower lying Ethiopian xeric grasslands and shrublands in the east of the country, the climate can be significantly hotter and drier.

Patagonia, a large southern plateau consisting mostly of arid, rocky steppes to the east, moister cold grasslands to the south and dense subantarctic forests to the west.

Crimea possesses significant historical and natural resources and is a region where it is possible to find practically any type of landscape mountain ranges and plateaus, grasslands, caves.

And if we just do that on about half the world's grasslands that I've shown you, we can take us back to pre industrial levels while feeding people.

In the south of the plain, where permafrost is largely absent, rich grasslands that are an extension of the Kazakh Steppe formed the original vegetation (almost all cleared now).

The grasslands at that time this was during the last ice age stretched basically from Germany all the way over to Korea, and the entire continent was open to them.

Now you are told over and over, repeatedly, that desertification is only occurring in arid and semi arid areas of the world, and that tall grasslands like this one, in high rainfall, are of no consequence.

But if you do not look at grasslands but look down into them, you find that most of the soil in that grassland that you've just seen is bare and covered with a crust of algae,

In the east, along the shores of the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea, there are extensive and densely populated alluvial plains, while on the edges of the Inner Mongolian plateau in the north, broad grasslands predominate.

People who would have specialized in killing the animals, hunting the animals on those meat locker savannahs, moving up, following the grasslands into the Middle East around 45,000 years ago, during one of the rare wet phases in the Sahara.

People who would have specialized in killing the animals, hunting the animals on those meat locker savannahs, moving up, following the grasslands into the Middle East around 45,000 years ago, during one of the rare wet phases in the Sahara.

And, indeed, once again we're moving forward to the kind of sexual expression that we probably saw on the grasslands of Africa a million years ago, because this is the kind of sexual expression that we see in hunting and gathering societies today.

And, indeed, once again we're moving forward to the kind of sexual expression that we probably saw on the grasslands of Africa a million years ago, because this is the kind of sexual expression that we see in hunting and gathering societies today.

And you need the local people for that because these grasslands, once they start burning ... It goes through it like a windstorm and you lose again the last bit of ash and nutrients to the first rainfall going to the sea killing off the coral reefs there.

Some Parties also identified as options for limiting emissions from agriculture the promotion of land use planning, encouragement of integrated farming, promotion of low tillage or no tillage agriculture, banning of sugar cane burning prior to harvest, post harvest management (including the avoidance of burning of farm waste), ploughing of vegetative waste into the soil, management and administration of grasslands and changes in the use and handling of crop residues.