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Over the course of 12 months, an area of Great Plains grasslands bigger than the state of Delaware was erased from the map. In 2021 alone, 1.6 million acres were plowed across the United States and ...

A walking trail in the Konza Prairie, located in the Flint Hills region of the Great Plains. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons) Temperate grassland ecosystems are being destroyed around the world, largely due ...

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This historically dry, hot year is wreaking havoc across the US. In the Great Plains, widespread drought has dried up water supplies, decimated crop harvests, and left cattle with no grass to eat.