Bison carry seed across thousands of miles when they eat the grass, and then they move the seed up to other parts of the ...

Roughly 40 percent of Earth’s land surface is covered by grasslands. Grasslands store about one-third of Earth’s terrestrial carbon and act as important carbon sinks. More than one million people take ...

Too often, one ecosystem is overlooked in value and complexity in the workings of our planet. The images of a leveled forest or polluted waterway resonate much more strongly than the increasing ...

European settlers likened the American prairie to a boundless “sea of grass.” If you zoom in to the perspective of the thousands of species that inhabit this under-appreciated landscape, however, it’s ...

Swift foxes are among the many species that rely on healthy grassland ecosystems. Image: Roshan Patel, Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute From the savannas of Sub-Saharan ...

The business mantra of "location, location, location" has a direct corollary in the wildlife world: "habitat, habitat, habitat." And when an animal has specific needs, not just any habitat will do.

Ms. Renkl is a contributing Opinion writer who covers flora, fauna, politics and culture in the American South. Until last fall, when PBS screened “The American Buffalo,” a documentary by Ken Burns, I ...

Montana is a vast state and one of America's most rural, typified by the Rockies meandering down from British Columbia and great, sprawling plains with grazing cattle and Stetson-clad cowboys roaming ...