Under the Great Plains, there's an aquifer powering the region's agriculture system. But it's running out of water, prompting farmers in middle America to consider more environmentally friendly crops.

Great Plains grid operator asks to fast-track power plants. By Jeffrey Tomich | 05/30/2025 06:41 AM EDT . Southwest Power Pool’s proposal is billed as a one-time, short-term fix to meet the need ...

The sprawling Great Plains stretch for approximately a million square miles, covering roughly one-third of the continental ...

A s the second largest state in the US, Texas has a wide range of ecosystems. The Lone Star State is situated in the massive Midwest Great Plains region, but also has over 300 hundred miles of ...

Selecting plants that are different from others plants can be challenging but rewarding. It can be challenging because garden centers, being good business people, tend to carry what customers ask ...

The corn market has been relatively strong as Texas producers monitor planted fields in southern areas and prepare to plant in the High Plains. But that strong market might not last due to market ...

Already, the black-footed ferret has been extirpated from Texas since the 1980s, and the Great Plains wolf and Plains grizzly bear have long been extinct. And experts say the crisis is only ...

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In the Great Plains, the most notable “backup species,” Baliga said, is the honeybee, which is nonnative and was introduced to the U.S. as, essentially, livestock in the 1600s.

A cyclist on the Great Plains Gravel Route, cycling on country road 2 north of Quitaque and Caprock Canyons State Park. Courtesy of Jerod Foster Texas Tech photography professor Jerod Foster is ...

Drought peaked in October of 2022 at nearly 63% of the country, and since then, it’s steadily declined across much of the West, northern Great Plains, Midwest, Tennessee and Ohio Valleys.

Eastern redcedars have crept across the Great Plains, carpeting what used to be grassland from the Texas, up through Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. In some places, the redcedars have been welcomed.