{
  "id": 3093592,
  "title": "Why ancient grasslands, once plowed, don't grow back the same",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/24/why-ancient-grasslands-once-plowed-dont-grow-back-the-same",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-24T19:00:07.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-08-ancient-grasslands-plowed-dont.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "When a 10,000-year-old prairie is plowed up to plant corn or a savanna is consumed by a strip mall, these once-grassy expanses, if left to regrow, can eventually look vaguely like they did before. But a growing body of research suggests that what comes back isn't the same as what was lost, even decades later. And now scientists are starting to understand why.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}