Explore Effigy Mounds in Iowa, where ancient Indigenous earthworks, forested trails, and Mississippi River views reveal America’s earliest stories.

In the rain-starved deserts of coastal Peru, tiny patches surprisingly rich in plant life dot the landscape. Burrowing birds may be responsible, scientists say. Mounds of sand shoveled out by ...

Questions: Termite mounds are important sources of local-scale soil heterogeneity and thereby affect savanna vegetation. Studies contrasting mound and savanna vegetation usually neglect variation ...

Scientists recently found the planet’s longest continuously occupied termite colony in an arid region of South Africa. It dates to the time of the Neanderthals. By Franz Lidz Last month, Michele ...

BURNETT - Restoring the landscape to its native roots can be time-consuming, hard work as any forester can attest, but that work is essential for groups of volunteers who are working to preserve some ...

For decades, Dayton’s Bluff residents have enjoyed a pedestrian trail high atop the limestone and sandstone bluffs that long ago served as an American Indian burial ground. But newly uncovered ...

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