Congresswoman to ask House Appropriations Committee for money to relieve Prairie View Ranch Water District of ‘toxic black ...

“By putting in native prairies and grasses, we can now actually absorb three to four times as much water as if we had manicured grass,” she said. Experts who study early learning and climate science ...

But perhaps the prairie’s most intriguing characteristic is a superpower that we can use to combat climate change and the effects of greenhouse gas emissions: carbon sequestration. Depres says that ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

As much as one-fifth of the Earth's surface is covered in wild grasses in biomes known, aptly, as grasslands. These biomes are characterized by the plants that grow there, but they also attract a ...

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 ...

“I’m trying to be more climate change resilient on my farm.” Research shows that converting as little as 10% of a corn or soybean field into a prairie strip can reduce soil erosion by 95 ...

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

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." ...