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.

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...