When a 10,000-year-old prairie is plowed up to plant corn or a savanna is consumed by a strip mall, these once-grassy expanses, if left to regrow, can eventually look vaguely like they did before. But ...

Grasslands provide food for millions of grazing animals across the world, but overgrazing along with climate change make these valuable ecosystems vulnerable to invaders. In particular, certain ...

Wild ecosystems such as grassland savannas, bush and open wetlands are losing ground worldwide to make way for large pastures and grain fields. A new study found these ecosystems are being converted ...

Every lawn problem that recurs year after year, from patchy growth and bare spots to disease, moss invasion, and poor drought ...

Not long ago, scientists could only imagine the secret journeys of many small birds. Even with binoculars and field notebooks, most of their movements went unseen. Today, new tracking technologies are ...

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 ...

For 75 years, grasslands research conducted just outside Pietermaritzburg, South Africa has informed policy makers and farmers about sustainable management, while training generations of students.

In Westgate Conservancy in northern Kenya, a group of women gather each morning after milking their livestock to work on a grassland restoration site. The site, one of three these women have restored, ...

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Brazil’s Supreme Court should declare the state regulations that put grasslands at risk illegal on the grounds that they conflict with the Federal Constitution. The National Environmental Council ...

Earth is home to a spectacular array of ecosystems, each with their own unique characteristics and benefits. Yet not all of them receive equal attention: Grasslands, for one, are often overlooked — ...