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An international research team led by the University of Vienna has produced, for the first time, high-resolution global maps of invasion risk for thousands of alien plant species under current ...

A new report presents major findings on the gravity of impacts from invasive alien species on our planet. A new report by the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) ...

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 ...

Fossilized plant remains discovered near a Utah ghost town have stumped scientists, who are unable to link them to any modern or extinct plants. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

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

It sounds like the title of a bad B-movie: Alien Plant Invaders. But here in Montgomery County and communities across the country, the problem of alien plants -- also known as nonnative invasive ...