Fashions News

Lush grasslands spread their seeds in the wind around the town of Hajdudorog in Hungary. The world's grasslands ecosystems all have common characteristics, yet each boasts unique plants and animal species.

Terraced fields like these have been used by different cultures around the world for thousands of years to farm areas of sloped land that are too steep for conventional methods.

An early winter snow dusts grasslands in Paradise Valley in Montana. This land was once Native American territory, inhabited by Lakota, Sioux, Cheyenne, Crow, and other Plains Indian nations.

Dawn illuminates Little Missouri National Grassland in North Dakota. As many as 60 million bison once grazed these lands. Today only about 200,000 remain.

Rows of winter wheat wind their way to the Colorado horizon. Because North American grasslands have such fertile soil, most of the natural landscape has been converted to farmland.

A black-tailed prairie dog perks up outside his burrow in South Dakota. These playful rodents live in well-organized underground burrows called towns that can have populations in the thousands.

A storm rolls in over New Mexico grasslands with the Sangre de Cristo Mountain in the distance. All the land between the Rocky Mountains and the Mississippi River from Texas to Saskatchewan used to be a giant expanse of prairie.