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August 12, 2012: Climbing an Electric Rock Face, Fishing in Alaskan...

Most people think of Mount Kilimanjaro as the big mountain in Africa to climb. But Jake Norton’s accent of Mount Kenya was a more periling journey as his team became stuck in a sever lightning storm....

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5 Good News Stories About Grasslands

  Rainbow Over American Prairie Reserve, Montana. Photo: Dennis Lingohr/APR   THIS MONTH: Bison Make a Comeback, Przewalski’s Horse Decoded, Antelopes Rebound, Habitat for Grassland Birds, Nebraska’s...

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5 Good News Stories About Grasslands

  Rainbow Over American Prairie Reserve, Montana. Photo: Dennis Lingohr/APR   THIS MONTH: Bison Make a Comeback, Przewalski’s Horse Decoded, Antelopes Rebound, Habitat for Grassland Birds, Nebraska’s...

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Video: Why Do Prairie Dogs Do “The Wave”?

It’s not easy being a rodent in the U.S. Great Plains. Animals like black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus) are under constant threat of being preyed upon from land and air by predators that...

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Ancient DNA from Montana Skeleton Holds Clues to Native American Ancestry

A Native American man from the North American Great Plains. Photo by Chris Johns/National Geographic Creative DNA from the skeleton of an ancient boy from Montana may just hold clues revealing who the...

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