The sprawling Great Plains stretch for approximately a million square miles, covering roughly one-third of the continental ...

Microsoft's Great Plains buy changes competitive landscape Mary Jo Foley She is the author of Microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft plans to stay relevant in the post-Gates era (John Wiley & Sons, 2008).

More: ‘The most imperiled ecosystem’: Grassland wildlife declining in West Texas, Great Plains While data indicates modern agricultural practices did indeed play a crucial role in the decline ...

Climate change threatens the Great Plains, but bison may hold a key to resilience KCUR | By Celia Llopis-Jepsen Published November 16, 2022 at 3:00 AM CST ...

Mr. Vaughan is a freelance journalist and a native of Nebraska who writes frequently about the Great Plains. He is the author of “Zoo Nebraska: The Dismantling of an American Dream.” One ...

A U.S. Forest Service drawing of a Great Plains farm landscape showing tree "shelterbelts" running north to south and planted roughly 1 mile apart. | Forest Service/USDA.

The challenge, he said, is “basically managing that transition” to a fully arid Great Plains. But human-caused climate change is helping drive the decline in rainfalls , exacerbating the problem.

Under the Great Plains, there's an aquifer powering the region's agriculture system. But it's running out of water, prompting farmers in middle America to consider more environmentally friendly crops.

We normally think of trees as being good for the environment. But in parts of the Midwest and Great Plains, they're heating up the earth as woodlands take over grasslands.

As the prairie landscape steadily vanishes, the root cause is often overshadowed by the spotlight on industrial practices, with experts pointing to agriculture and energy development as the ...