(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) In Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks in California, trees ...

Forests, grasslands, and other natural areas around the world have access to about a quarter less nitrogen than previously estimated, according to a new study published in Nature. Subscribe to our ...

Intensive land-use reduces beneficial effects of biodiversity on ecosystem services. It assessed the effects of land management on the links between biodiversity, ecosystem functions and ecosystem ...

A new global data set makes it possible to track near-real-time changes in several types of vegetation across different ecosystems, including grasslands, savannas, shrublands, croplands, temperate ...

Idaho has four major ecosystems: forests, wetlands, deserts and grasslands. Learn more. Idaho has four major ecosystems: forests, wetlands, deserts and grasslands. Find out what kinds of plants and ...

Just two months after its launch, the European Space Agency (ESA) Biomass satellite is already showing us Earth in a whole new light. On June 23 the ESA released the mission’s first images, which ...

As a research scholar at the Indian Institute for Science Education and Research, I once monitored birds that inhabited tall wet grasslands in Daying Ering Memorial Wildlife Sanctuary, a protected ...

Susanne Vetter does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Experts have called for urgent protection of Rajasthan's grasslands, deserts, and shrublands, which cover nearly 34 per cent of the state but remain largely invisible in land-use and policy frameworks ...

Students in St. Joseph High School’s seventh-grade life science class have been studying biomes and recently created models of them. A biome is an ecosystem that has certain weather, animals and ...