Forest health depends as much on prevention as on cleanup.

The spread of species beyond their native habitat is a human-made environmental change on a global scale. Among vascular plants, over 16,000 species have now permanently settled in foreign countries.

The plants outside your window carry a hidden geography. Many arrived from distant continents. A new global forecast shows that mix is about to shift, in ways few people notice until it takes hold.

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 ...

A lot of people think of plants as pretty to look at, but defenseless and passive as far as organisms go. However, the many alien species—or "monster plants"—around us show we should never ...

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

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Researchers found this by overlaying maps of Indigenous people’s lands (IPLs) with recently published of millions of alien species from around the ...

Effective management of invasive alien vegetation is one of the most critical ways to protect South Africa’s natural water sources. According to WWF South Africa’s Water Gains Calculator Tool, in 2025 ...

A plant that lived 47 million years ago in what is now Utah is like nothing that lives on planet Earth today. The discovery of new fossils reveals that a species first found in 1969 is not a member of ...

Hydnora is one of the strangest flowering plants ever discovered, a subterranean parasite that survives entirely by draining nutrients from the roots of other plants . It spends most of its life ...