Conservation works to restore a nationally-recognised local wildlife habitat are continuing thanks to further funding from ...

Kansas is more than endless plains—it’s a land of rare prairies, striking rock formations, and peaceful wildlife refuges. From the Flint Hills’ rolling tallgrass to the canyon-like Arikaree Breaks, ...

Karen Shimizu is the Executive Editor of Food & Wine. A seasoned editor and journalist who has worked on magazines, websites, cookbooks, and newspapers, Karen has been helping to shape the way ...

Agriculture is widely known to be the biggest driver of forest destruction globally, especially in sprawling, high-profile ecosystems like the Amazon rainforest. But new research published this week ...

Researchers will embark on a two-year journey to collect and bank Alabama’s native grassland plant seeds, in an effort funded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. “We can envision a future where we ...

Grassland degradation fundamentally reshapes how biodiversity supports ecosystem multifunctionality, shifting it from being plant-dominated to being mediated by soil microbes, according to a new study ...

An earth bumblebee, a stone bumblebee and a honeybee in one of the sunflower fields investigated as part of the study. For their study, researchers from the University of Würzburg (JMU), together with ...

Rupestrian grasslands form an ecosystem of extremes: covering a mere 0.8% of Brazil’s territory, they are home to 15% of the nation’s flora. Of the 5,700 plant species catalogued, 40% can only be ...

Grasses growing in the shade of a solar array were only a little less productive than those growing nearby in open grassland during years of average and above-average rainfall – but in a dry year, the ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (KCTV) - Federal aid is headed to the Sunflower State to help Kansans recover from the devastation of persisting grassland fires. The Kansas Division of Emergency Management has announced ...

As grasslands get abandoned, controlled burning is discussed as a labor-saving method of keeping forests at bay. A research team found that this method results in higher biodiversity and a higher ...