Grasslands, covering 40% of Earth's vegetated surface, play a crucial role in the global carbon balance but are increasingly ...

Poisonous plants are encroaching on Asia's grasslands, but scientists have found that they could help save the ecosystem.

Forest fires can devastate vast swaths of land, but in the United States, another category of conflagrations takes the title of most destructive. Of the homes destroyed in wildfires across the ...

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 ...

Over the past week, multiple large wildfires have broken out across California from San Diego County to the Oregon border, releasing tons of carbon dioxide into the air. As the vegetation grows back, ...

In Mongolia, livestock products, including live animals, milk, meat, wool and hides, account for one-third of that country's gross domestic product. In Africa much of the livestock is used to provide ...

Recently restored grasslands (top row) are visited mostly by flies and hoverflies that are generalists and thus often carry pollen from one plant to flowers of a different species (from left to right: ...

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Banner image: Bison grazing in Konza prairie, Kansas, where fire is needed to suppress woody encroachment. (Credit: Barbara van Horn / Reprinted with permission from Suding et al., Science 377:594 ...

The Trump administration is evicting bison herds from federal grasslands in Montana, siding with ranchers and Republican ...