Western nongovernmental organizations and their Central Asian partners have joined efforts to save the unique grassland of the Ustyurt Plateau, a temperate desert lying between the Caspian and the ...

To mimic the Central Asian steppe landscape of the Chinese province Inner Mongolia, Kuanlu Architects proposed the construction of an exhibition plaza that can be walked on—in other words, the roof is ...

A typical forest-steppe landscape consisting of forest and grassland patches in the Southeast Europe region of the Eurasian forest-steppe zone. The question arises as to why it was necessary to wait ...

Within Washington’s interior, a sea of sagebrush acts as a haven hidden in plain sight, with one passing by not noticing that there’s more than meets the eye to this shrub-filled landscape. It’s easy ...

In the Tarutyne Steppe in Ukraine’s Odesa Oblast, nature had a stroke of luck long before the area was granted protected status as a landscape reserve in 2012: after World War II, it became a military ...