Plants that are native to a prairie-type climate are well-adapted to periods of low rainfall and produce nectar that native species of birds and pollinators prefer. Planting your garden with native ...

“By putting in native prairies and grasses, we can now actually absorb three to four times as much water as if we had ...

Prairie strips are helping to reverse that loss ... how rising carbon dioxide levels would decrease their nutritional value, and how climate change would lead to dry, lifeless soil.

The North American prairie rivals the Amazon rainforest in its biological diversity, and it’s disappearing even faster.

Governments, farm organizations, food manufacturers, and researchers have described a seemingly impenetrable wall to productive discussions on sustainability in Prairie agriculture.

A new study links the severe climate to a change in Earth's orbit ... Salonen explains: "In the mid-continent, where we have modern prairie region, we see most severe drought at about 7,000 ...

TUCSON, Ariz. — Native American communities actively managed North American prairies for centuries before Christopher Columbus' arrival in the New World, according to a new study by researchers ...

The team also included results from long-term global change experiments in the region, which demonstrated that climate change is capable of driving the types of changes observed. The study ...

LONG PRAIRIE — There's something special about ... gas emissions that trap heat in our atmosphere and speed up climate change. "You look at the grass, and it kind of sparkles.

Salonen explains, "In the mid-continent, where we have the modern prairie region ... and it's like the entire climate anomaly causing the thousands-of-years-long drought started migrating westward." ...