In recent years, the Prairies have seen bigger swings in climate conditions—very wet years followed by very dry ones. That ...

The cast of the television series 'Little House on the Prairie' with a dog on the set of the show, mid 1970s. Clockwise from left: American actors Melissa Gilbert, Michael Landon (1936 - 1991), Karen ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on Oct. 23, 2022. The original video can be viewed here. The United States has national parks devoted to canyons and deserts, glaciers and geysers ...

Lee Tesdell stands in a prairie strip on his farm near Slater, Iowa. He grows alfalfa and Kernza, a perennial grain, raises sheep and cash rents to a neighbor who grows corn and soybeans. Over the ...

The cover of "Sea of Grass" and authors Dave Hage and Josephine Marcotty. (Courtesy of Penguin Random House and Chris Bentley/Here & Now) Editor's note: This segment was rebroadcast on Sept. 1, 2025.

At the time of the arrival of Little House on the Prairie, NBC was in a quandary. CBS was the top-rated network. ABC ranked No. 2. And NBC was the home of only four series ranked in the Top 30. It ...

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and WBEZ, a public radio station serving the Chicago metropolitan region. The American prairie was so vast, so alien, it shattered ...

An unbroken landscape of grasses and wildflowers stretches as far as the eye can see, punctuated only by a collection of dots on a distant hill. It’s a herd of bison, my binoculars reveal. What I ...

To the untrained eye, the restored prairie lands of Illinois look exactly how you would imagine they looked hundreds of years ago. But many plant species are still missing, and recent efforts — ...

From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Paloma Beltran with Josephine Marcotty, co-author of “Sea of Grass: The Conquest, Ruin, and ...

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