Kent landscape that inspired Dickens declared nature reserve - Natural England announced the creation of the North Kent Woods ...

A Kent landscape of ancient woodlands, wildflower meadows and chalk grasslands that inspired novelist Charles Dickens has ...

Now, the 960-acre Orland Grassland Land and Water Reserve near Orland Park offers a glimpse of that ancient landscape, thanks to the removal of drain tiles and environmental mitigation work taken ...

One tree does not make a forest, but a lone tree can nevertheless function as a small-scale ecosystem. Considering all the ...

But sometimes restoring a grassland ecosystem simply means setting things up for the landscape to restore itself: thinning trees, burning the understory, and watching as the soil awakens.

Credit: Dr. Zoë Thomas A researcher from the University of Southampton (UK) has found evidence that the treeless, rugged, grassland landscape of the Falkland Islands was home to a lush ...

A researcher has found evidence that the treeless, rugged, grassland landscape of the Falkland Islands was home to a lush, diverse rainforest up to 30 million years ago. A researcher from the ...

Grasslands that have been tilled-up to plant crops, even decades ago, are likely to be both less productive and less resilient than lands without that use legacy. While contemporary stocking rates ...

The grasslands are also wintering grounds for ... Grassland Conservation Reserve” protecting a unique grassland landscape with rich biodiversity that serves as an important water catchment ...