Efforts to manage invasive alien plant species in forests could be held back by a continued reliance on chemical methods, ...

Efforts to manage invasive alien plant species in forests could be held back by a continued reliance on chemical methods, according to a new study. Research led by Lizzie Keen, a postgraduate ...

(CNN) — Lake Naivasha, northwest of Nairobi, Kenya is becoming increasingly unnavigable. Water hyacinth, the world’s most widespread invasive species, is blanketing the lake, choking its fish and ...

More than 2,500 plant species have the potential to invade the Arctic at the expense of the species that belong there. Norway is one of the areas that is particularly at risk. Species that are not ...

In future, researchers want to use drones to hunt for alien plants. This should make it easier to combat invasive plants, as the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM) announced on ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American For the first time in U.K. history, an alien ...

As they quietly expand their kingdoms, we can look in the mirror and ruefully shake our heads. Over the past two centuries, amid growing trade and amid colonisation, plants, trees, fish and mammals ...