Grasslands go by many different names and are made up of two main types: tropical — also known as savannas — and temperate. The two types appear similar, but have different kinds of soil and are ...

A botanist, dubbed the Prairie Preacher, fights to save America's endangered grasslands. "The Prairie Preacher" follows Dr. Dwayne Estes, a botanist who earned his nickname for his passionate advocacy ...

This story originally appeared on High Country News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Laughter and the chirping of grasshoppers mingled on a mild August morning as several young women, ...

Kansas’ prairie grasslands are America’s forgotten treasure. They support a web of wildlife, from bison and prairie-chickens to tiny sparrows, making them ecological treasures few realize they have.

NEAR PRESHO, S.D. -- In the nearly half-century he's lived in South Dakota, John Cooper has seen countless beautiful prairie sunsets. But none perhaps prettier than one on a recent late afternoon that ...

HALL COUNTY. ANDREW: IT’S SOMETHING NO ONE HAS EVER SEEN BEFORE IN RECORDED HISTY.OR THIS MANY WHOOPING CRANES ALL IN ONE AREA, IN THE WILD, DURING A MIGRATN.IO THIS WAS RECORDED OMFR A CRANE TRUST ...

DAPHNE PRAIRIE, TEX. — B.F. Hicks is doing 70 mph down a two-lane road in Franklin County, Tex. He pulls up in his truck to a gated property that’s closer to Arkansas than Dallas. Waist-high bluestem ...

Roughly 40 percent of Earth’s land surface is covered by grasslands. Grasslands store about one-third of Earth’s terrestrial carbon and act as important carbon sinks. More than one million people take ...