The map uses a binary red/blue color scheme to show the state of grasslands in North America. Areas in red have lost grasslands. Places where they still exist are shown in blue.

This shares 5 stories of hope from one of North America's largest remaining intact grasslands.

Grasslands go by many names. In the U.S. Midwest, they're often called prairies. In South America, they're known as pampas. Central Eurasian grasslands are referred to as steppes, while African ...

Thanks to their rich soils, temperate grasslands are frequently converted to farm land. Agricultural crops, such as corn, wheat, and other grains grow well in grassland soils and climate.

A botanist, dubbed the Prairie Preacher, fights to save America's endangered grasslands.

These grasslands host a variety of animals, plants, microbes, and human communities that depend on each other for survival and prosperity. Here are four facts about grasslands that we bet you didn’t ...

BirdsLandfill’s Grassland May Be ‘Only Hope’ More than half of bird species that depend on grasslands for breeding habitat are in steep decline.

Southern grassland ecosystems, and nearly all the plants and animals they supported, are gone. There is hope of bringing some of them back to life.

The home of the only wild population of Victorian grassland earless dragons is no longer viable as a private farm, but ...

Imagine a landscape, where grasses sway in the wind, where wildflowers bloom from the first days of spring until the falling leaves of autumn. During the day butterflies paint the skies, and bird ...

At the Nachusa Grasslands, there are more than 4,000 acres of restored tallgrass prairie — and one herd of bison.