Nationwide efforts to convert salty soil into arable grasslands have extended to a high-elevation part of China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region where a quartet of mountains converge and the ...

South Africa’s Drakensberg grasslands are one of five subtropical grassland ecoregions in the country. The rolling hills and mountains of the Drakensberg are an important water catchment area and the ...

Today, however, the wild prairie is a shadow of its former self. And temperate grasslands, as a whole, are now considered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature to be the most ...

July 22, 2024 — Climate change will have a considerable influence on the biodiversity and productivity of meadows and pastures. However, according to the results of the large-scale climate and ...

Grasslands are responding to climate change almost in real time, according to new research. Although all ecosystems are affected by a changing climate, the impacts can take a while to appear ...

One can reflect on the hard life of homesteaders who settled here and elsewhere in the sprawling Pawnee National Grassland during the 19th century, only to pack up and leave during the Dust Bowl ...

Findings of an ecologically realistic 24-year field study involving 108 experimental grassland plots in Minnesota provide an answer that doesn't bode well for biodiversity conservation efforts ...

Grasslands, on the other hand, are responding to climate change almost in real time, according to new research by the University of Michigan. Put another way, forests accumulate climate debt while ...

Ontario’s Ministry of Agriculture says $4.8 million of the total allotted has been allocated for new grasslands under the Resilient Agricultural Landscape Program that started in June.

BILLINGS – Intact native grasslands have continued to decline across North America with 1.9 million acres converted to croplands in 2022 alone, according to a recently published World Wildlife ...

Grassland ecosystems, like that of the Carrizo Plain National Monument in California, are seeing their biodiversity shift rapidly with changing climate. Although all ecosystems are affected by a ...