Soil nutrients support plants, and the animals who consume plants return these nutrients to the soil, creating a nutrient cycle. In a new study published in Ecology, scientists from the Smithsonian's ...

A mass die-off of prairie dogs in a Colorado county has health officials concerned that it could be the plague.

Decades before today's homestead look, Welsh lifestyle guru Laura Ashley was selling a rural, nostalgic idyll. Now, her rose-tinted vision of a "simple life" is more popular than ever.

As settlers moved west in the United States they came across a wide span of land that had no trees or mountains to stop the strong winds. The vegetation was mainly grasses with flowering perennials ...