If you ever have walked across a Nebraska prairie and noticed small dirt mounds dotting the landscape, heads popping from ...

Biologist Mike Ross, balanced in a canoe beneath a star-filled sky in central Zambia, slaps the water with a net attached to ...

A new stretch of border wall will soon be built through the San Rafael Valley, southeast Arizona's last major open space for ...

The ecosystem is a delicate balance between all living organisms, including plants and animals, as well as the weather and climate they endure. There are also multiple ecosystem types within each ...

In a matter of days, an isolated training airport in the Everglades where endangered Florida panthers roam became a sprawling immigration detention center christened “Alligator Alcatraz,” ...

Throughout history, wild animals have played pivotal roles in shaping the natural world around us. Sometimes through natural processes, and other times through human introduction to new environments, ...

Rivers are Earth's arteries. Water, sediment and nutrients self-organize into diverse, dynamic channels as they journey from ...

Compared to unfertilised natural grasslands (based on 50 sites studied), these fertilised grasslands exhibit reduced biodiversity, yet the ecosystem remains stable and productive.

Grassland biome. Read all the latest scientific research on the grassland biome, including articles on grassland animals and the effect of global warming on the grasslands.

The Nachusa Grasslands, a 4,000-acre plot in Franklin Grove, Illinois, is home to a herd of 100 wild American Bison, which are helping to restore the native flora and fauna of the Midwest.

Elephants aren’t just some of the most revered and majestic creatures with whom we share the planet, they are a keystone species, on which other animals and plants literally depend for survival. The ...