2024年11月20日 · Cleaning up contaminated land is a struggle. Meet some of the community leaders who are taking matters into their own hands. The tarp shade snaps and flutters in the breeze above the harvest...

2024年5月14日 · By knowing how different soil types influence lawn grass, you can anticipate potential problems and even begin correcting them. As many gardeners know, soil is made up of particles that can be divided into three categories, or textures – sand, silt and clay. The size of the soil particle determines what texture it belongs to.

2021年12月3日 · Overplowing and the displacement of prairie grasslands that anchored the topsoil had reduced once-fertile plains to a parched, barren wasteland swept by dust storms. We still use the word "dirt"...

2023年10月25日 · WWF's 2023 Plowprint Report shows that 1.6 million acres of grassland habitat were destroyed in the Great Plains across the US and Canada in 2021. Since 2012, we've lost 32 million acres, plowed up primarily for row crop agriculture.

Farmers have a far reaching impact in influencing the progress that is made in the sustainable management of New Zealand’s natural resources. While some advocates are ready and willing to prescribe apparently “more appropriate” behaviour, the …

2023年5月11日 · In the Great Plains, 1.8 million acres of grassland habitat were lost in 2020, and another 10 million acres were plowed up—all for row crop agriculture. This large-scale habitat loss is a major contributor to the precipitous decline of grassland birds and the loss of vast amounts of sequestered carbon.

2022年10月24日 · Nearly 1.8 million acres of grasslands were destroyed across the US and Canadian Great Plains in 2020 alone, according to WWF’s seventh-annual Plowprint Report. Each year, the report analyzes plow-up that occurred two years prior to the report's release.

2021年9月7日 · Grasslands are under severe threat from ongoing degradation, undermining their capacity to support biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being. Yet, grasslands are largely ignored in...

2024年12月19日 · Using data from a 13-year field experiment in a semi-arid grassland, we investigated the effects of litter manipulations and plant removal on soil microbiomes and ecosystem multifunctionality...

Today, the primary vegetation consists of thorny brush such as mesquite, acacia, and prickly pear mixed with areas of grassland. These plants have been identified as particularly worrisome terrestrial invasive species in the South Texas Plains ecoregion. Click on their scientific names to go to the Invasive Plant Database and learn more.