American bison, commonly known as buffalo, once thundered across the prairies of North America — until 1889, when they were ...

Joseph H. Williams Tallgrass Prairie Preserve, Oklahoma. At 40,000 acres, this northern Oklahoma preserve is the largest ...

A new book traces the environmental collapse of a crucial ecosystem and how its return could fight climate change.

This article is from The Conversation. In the grip of winter, the North American prairies can look deceptively barren. But many wild animals have evolved through harsh winters on these open ...

Tallgrass prairies are in trouble across North America. Travelers across the continent once called the region, which used to cover more than 170 million acres, a “sea of grass” .

Once upon a time, vast expanses of North America were covered in wild prairie, shimmering oceans of grass festooned with wildflowers and teeming with animal life. Today, less than 15% of tallgrass ...

North America’s prairies once were home to millions of wild animals. Today, most of that land is farmed or developed, but some grasslands have never been plowed and could be rewilded.