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 ...

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 ... the mountains cast a “rain shadow’’ over the land to their east and gave the region its defining dry climate. When clouds ...

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 roots of prairie plants such as switchgrass ... Aboveground, too, grasses are exquisitely adapted to a dry climate. Their profusion of narrow blades can capture huge amounts of sunlight ...

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." ...