Grasslands are environments in which herbaceous species, especially grasses, make up the dominant vegetation. Natural grasslands, commonly called prairie, pampas, shrub steppe, palouse, and many other regional names, occur in regions where rainfall...

Grasslands, which are biomes wet enough to avoid becoming deserts but too dry to support forests, are usually flat or rolling regions that receive an average 25 to 100 centimeters of rain a year. Although large portions of the earth's grasslands have...

Grasslands develop as a result of changes in climate, changes in plant communities, and fires. Grasslands first appeared millions of years ago after mountains formed and caused climates to change. In North America, for example, the Rocky Mountains...

Ecosystems in which grasses and grasslike plants such as sedges and rushes dominate the vegetation are termed grasslands. Grasslands occur on every continent except Antarctica. It is estimated that grasslands once covered as much as 25 to 40 percent of...

Grasslands are areas where the vegetation is dominated by grasses (Poaceae) and other herbaceous (non-woody) plants (forbs). Plants of the sedge (Cyperacae) and rush (Juncaceae) families can also be frequent in grasslands. Grasslands occur naturally on...

The U.S. Forest Service has issued a draft report with proposed plans to curtail prairie dogs on national grasslands through poisoning and other means.Conservation groups condemned the list of five options in the proposed Environmental Impact Statement, arguing they could lead to the destruction of...

Chinese author Jiang Rong beat four other shortlisted Asian writers to become the first winner of the Man Asian Literary Prize for his best-selling novel "The Wolf Totem."The $100,000 award is newly established to recognize the region's best literature that has not yet been published...

Charles Kruse knows he's lucky to be living and ranching in a place where other people take vacations _ just south of the stark spires and buttes of Badlands National Park.But his voice rises in agitation when he talks about the invaders that swarm over...

The West and Southeast face an increased wildfire risk this year because of ongoing drought and an expected hotter than average summer, the National Interagency Fire Center reported Tuesday.The center identified broad swaths of those regions _ including all of Florida _ and central Alaska...