When water is scarce, increases in grassland productivity are more valuable because there isn’t as much around. Therefore, ...

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Breakfast porridge, our daily bread and rice sustaining more than half of the world’s population are all bred from natural ...

Invertebrates play important roles within their ecosystems. Earthworms, for example, add air to the soil and help cycle ...

A sweeping look at the vanishing American prairie and two crime novels set in Minnesota are this week’s offerings to our ...

Sea of Grass,” written by Dave Hage and former Star Tribune environmental reporter Josephine Marcotty, is due in bookstores ...

The Indian wildlife is as diverse as its culture, and one of the many unique ways that this diversity is valued is by giving them the value of being the representatives as state animals.Every Indian ...

Across the icy edges of Earth’s northern and southern reaches, life has adapted to thrive in some of the harshest conditions.

Animal research has always walked a tightrope between necessity and controversy. It has yielded critical breakthroughs in ...

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Scientists and park managers once thought giant sequoia forests nearly impervious to stressors like wildfire, drought and pests. Yet, even very large trees are proving vulnerable, particularly when ...