750-Year-Old Poems Reveal India’s Savannas Are Far Older Than We Thought

Medieval bards and poets described plant life that reveals India’s savannas have thrived for at least 750 years. Here’s why that history matters now. In one of the earliest known texts written in Marathi, a language spoken by millions in western and central India, a 13th-century spiritual leader named Cakradhara uses an acacia tree to [...]

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