Thread by @1juliarosen

Grasslands are easy to overlook and undervalue. I've spent the last 6+ months reporting a story on why that's a terrible mistake. My latest for @TheAtlantic #longreads theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

@TheAtlantic Many thanks to my wonderful editor @nijhuism and to @KSJatMIT for supporting my reporting!

Thanks also to Callaghan O’Hare and Trent Davis Bailey for wonderful 📸!

Here's a selected bibliography of studies cited in the story:

Grassland loss and degradation:
nature.com/articles/s4301…

Old-growth grasslands: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.189…

The antiquity of Madagascar's grasslands:
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

The colonial history of tree planting:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/25…

The savannas of Asia:
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Biome Awareness Disparity (BAD):
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

Plant diversity in old-growth grasslands:
pnas.org/doi/full/10.10…

Underground forests:
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

WRI's Atlas of Forest and Landscape Restoration Opportunities:
wri.org/data/atlas-for…

The global tree restoration potential :
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Tree plantations:
nature.com/articles/d4158…

Grasslands storing more carbon than forests lose through fire:
nature.com/articles/s4156…

Grasslands storing carbon more securely than forests:
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108…

Ecosystem Marketplace report on voluntary carbon markets:
ecosystemmarketplace.com/articles/volun…