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 ...

On Sunday night, as a burst of Arctic air swept southward across the Great Plains, power plants in Texas started flicking offline. Wind generation fell 32% between 9 p.m. Sunday and 3 a.m. Monday ...

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.

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

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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 ...

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.

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.

Great Plains Bison Were Brought Back ... Releasing the first bison in 1993 was a step toward restoring part of an ecosystem that once stretched from Texas to ... tend to out-compete other plants.