The world's natural grasslands might sometimes seem a bit overlooked and under valued – but they’re hugely important environments. Some of the world’s best-known and iconic wildlife makes its home on ...

Grasslands are rapidly disappearing around the world due to conversion and abandonment, leading to a well-documented loss of biodiversity. Restoring abandoned grasslands by removing woody vegetation ...

KS2 Geography. Biomes. A short video for pupils aged 7 to 11 investigating two of Earth's major biomes - woodlands and ...

When most Canadians think of the prairies, they think of roads stretching for kilometre after kilometre with barely a curve, or symmetrical lines of corn, canola and wheat reaching for the horizon.

It’s midsummer on the eastern slope of the Rockies. We’re halfway up a rise next to our campsite, traffic whining on the highway below on its way to Crowsnest Pass a couple of miles west ...

On the borders of Tassili N'Ajjer in Algeria, also a World Heritage site, this rocky massif has thousands of cave paintings in very different styles, dating from 12,000 B.C. to A.D. 100. They reflect ...

South Africa’s Drakensberg grasslands are one of five subtropical grassland ecoregions in the country. The rolling hills and mountains of the Drakensberg are an important water catchment area and the ...

Recovered grasslands need more than 75 years of continuous management to regain their biodiversity because specialized pollinators are slow to return. A new finding underscores the importance of ...

Bees take more than 75 years to return to restored grasslands, warns new research. The finding underlines the importance of preserving grassy areas as reservoirs of biodiversity, say scientists.