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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sarah Spicer is the news editor at the Committee to Protect Journalists. Previously, she was the last reporter covering climate change in Kansas, working for the Wichita Eagle through Report for ...

Farmers in the heartland are restoring swaths of the prairie with government help. The aim is to reduce nutrient runoff from cropland, and help birds and bees. Credit...Annick Sjobakken for The New ...

A few miles outside Pullman, Washington, a remnant of the Palouse Prairie lies on a small hill, surrounded by undulating wheat fields and studded with cracked and weathered headstones from the late ...

Conservation groups are attempting to acquire a 440-acre, relatively undisturbed forest, prairie and wetlands complex in Wayne County's Brownstown Township. The groups must raise $6 million by the end ...

The prairie vole is a small Midwestern rodent known for shacking up and settling down, a tendency that is rare among mammals. Mated pairs form bonds, share a nest and raise young together. In the ...