Non-native species -- displaced either by global trade and travel or by climate change -- pose “a severe global threat” to local biodiversity, food security as well as public health, a new report has ...

Erik Irmer has been documenting the spread of invasive plant and animal species that disrupt native ecology across Europe. He focuses on humans’ interactions with these plants and animals. Aliens is p ...

Earth plants could thrive under the light of an alien sun, according to a recent experiment. A team of astrobiologists planted garden cress seeds and cultured dishes of photosynthetic bacteria under ...

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.

A pilot project in the Overberg aims to produce useful agricultural products using cleared invasive plants Clearing water-guzzling and soil-damaging alien invasive plants costs South Africa several ...

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 ...

An “alien plant” fossil discovered 55 years ago just outside of an abandoned town in Utah has no relation to any currently existing or extinct species, scientists revealed in a study last month.