America's native grasslands are disappearing

The Great Plains are being torn up at a ferocious rate - with frightening implications for biodiversity and carbon storageWhen Patrick Lendrum steps out into a natural grassland, he gets an incredible feeling of vastness looking out over the land - no mountains or trees or forests, just open expanse."The solitude out there is incredible, and there's enormous bird diversity in grasslands, the sounds that they make if you're there in the spring," says Ledlum, a scientist with the World Wildlife Fund's northern Great Plains program. "It's just this natural, incredible chorus and a lot of the species that you see on grass, and you don't see anywhere else in the world." Continue reading...