In Mongolia, livestock products, including live animals, milk, meat, wool and hides, account for one-third of that country's gross domestic product. In Africa much of the livestock is used to provide ...

Grasslands are vast, open landscapes where grasses, sedges, and wildflowers dominate the terrain rather than trees. They ...

Grass, clover and herbs are the foundation of Swiss agriculture: two- thirds of Switzerland’s agricultural land is grassland, much of which is barely suitable for arable farming. Vast areas of ...

A global research effort led by Colorado State University shows that extreme, prolonged drought conditions in grasslands and shrublands would greatly limit the long-term health of crucial ecosystems ...

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 ...

Many grasslands today provide livestock forage and contribute to meat and milk production, but soil degradation is a mounting problem. Soil data show that grasslands soil condition ranges from lightly ...

Nestled away from encroaching urbanization and expanding development, the sprawling grasslands at Lubbock Lake Landmark stand as a poignant reminder of the boundless beauty that once blanketed the ...

The Great Plains lost about 2.5 million acres of previously intact grassland to crop production between 2015 and 2016, according to a new report from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). Across the United ...

New research reveals that drought and increased temperatures in a CO2-rich climate can dramatically alter how grasslands use and move water. The study provides the first experimental demonstration of ...

Justin Khalief Davis was born in 2002 and sadly passed in April of 2012 at 9 years old. That’s all according to this memorial chest that David Purdom found while buying abandoned storage units in ...