Prairies are threatened by a mix of invasive and native plant species. As these species expand their territory, they prevent ...

It aims to keep the grassland free of trees and shrubs, maintaining the coastal prairie, one of California’s most overlooked ecosystems. Rolling hills of grass and wildflowers once blanketed ...

"The Prairie Preacher" follows Dr. Dwayne Estes, a botanist who earned his nickname for his passionate advocacy of grassland conservation. Once a child who found solace in nature, Estes now ...

Different parts of the world refer to their grasslands by different names – for instance ‘savannah’ in Africa, ‘cerrado’ in South America, ‘prairie’ in North America, ‘steppe’ in central Asia, ‘meadow ...

On this western rim of the great dish that holds grassland to the heart of the continent, the mix of altitude, climate and soil is just right to bring prairie flowers to a last hurrah before the ...

More than 70% of Canada’s prairie grassland has been converted for farming ... and their habit of rolling in the dirt creates microhabitats for plants. Birds build nests with their hair, and ...

Forest carbon offsets were created in 1989, when an American company promised to plant millions of trees in Guatemala to offset ... forests that span the West Coast to the grasslands of the Midwest’s ...

Researchers have been monitoring the impact of bison on plant and animal communities at The Nature Conservancy’s Nachusa ...