Lost and Found Again: Photos of African-Americans on the Plains What would otherwise be a local-interest story became a snapshot of history integral to the American experience ...

Country churches like this one have been important anchors for rural communities throughout the Great Plains. Born with both lungs and gills, this tiger salamander is still in its larval stage.

For almost 10 years, the Great Plains became a desert wasteland. During the 1930s, after an intensive period of over-farming, dust storms regularly wreaked havoc, blanketing towns and farms in ...

Most climate models paint a bleak picture of the Great Plains a century from now as a hot region besieged by heavy rainstorms and flooding. And new studies suggest that climate change may bring ...