#grasslands

Nearly 5,000 acres of North America’s grasslands are lost to farming each day https://www.earth.com/environment/nearly-5000-acres-of-north-americas-grasslands-are-lost-to-farming-each-day/ #America #NorthAmerica #environment #grasslands #agriculture #farming #AnimalAgriculture

#wildflowers #flowers #mountains #grasslands #Kodaikanal

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🍄🌍 Scientists mapped arbuscular #mycorrhizal #fungi – the #underground fungal threads that connect #plant roots. Analyzing over 16,000 #soil cores from 322 studies, they found the network stretches 110 quadrillion(!) km in the topsoil, long enough to reach the #Sun nearly a billion times. #Grasslands and #prairies hold the densest networks, while #farming reduces fungal density by nearly half. 👉 https://www.sciencealert.com/hidden-web-of-fungus-inside-earth-could-reach-the-sun-a-billion-times #science #ecology #plants #carbon #map #nature #biology #climate #microscopy #research #study

First Nation in B.C. marks 10 years of burrowing owl conservation efforts A First Nation in B.C. is celebrating a decade of its restoration efforts on Burrowing Owls, an endangered species in the country. Upper Nicola Band, a Sylix community located in the Nicola Valley within the Thompson-Nicola Regional District, released 11 owls into burrows on the grasslands of ...