Deep soil shrub steppe is prime land for burrowing owls. It’s made up of grasslands, sagebrush and other woody shrubs. In the Columbia Basin region, over 80% of the historic shrub steppe ...

Despite issues the region deals with, desertification harms its farms and ranches and damages the air and soil quality. Efforts against desertification ... rules to keep these risks from happening.

As white Americans moved further westward into the Nebraska territory after the Civil War, they kept fashioning a new American identity based on deep time. Digging deep into the ground to anchor the ...

A PhD student in Canada just made a remarkable discovery that rewrites the timeline of Ice Age extinctions — after analyzing samples that had been left in a university freezer for over a decade.

But this steep ravine in East Africa's Great Rift Valley, which has played a key role in the understanding of human evolution, was actually a desert steppe ... signs in the soil show there ...

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In business, Donald Trump was a real estate guy. In the presidency, he might be one, too. The prospective foreign policy of his second term has taken an unexpected turn, with his recent talk of ...

Tortoises have also made their way into space. In 1968, the Russians launched the Zond 5 spaceship with a capsule carrying samples of soil and seeds, some worms and two steppe tortoises. Frogs, too, ...