Zarah Pattison receives funding from NERC, UKRI. 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 ...

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 ...

The lack of a standardised method to explicitly link water benefits to invasive alien plant removal left a significant opportunity untapped, according to the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials, ...

Randburg, known for its thriving gardens and natural beauty, faces a growing environmental threat from alien invasive plant species. These non-native plants may appear harmless initially but wreak ...

Managing alien species in a large protected area such as the Kruger National Park is “daunting”, with one to two new invasive or naturalised species having been recorded annually since 2000, according ...

Water and Sanitation Deputy Minister, Sello Seitlholo, and the Rhodes University Centre for Biological Control (CBC) have released weevil species to tackle the invasive alien aquatic plant at ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

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 ...

The plant was entirely unique, with features no modern plant shares, making it an outsider in the fossil record A MIND-boggling discovery has left scientists even more puzzled about one of the most ...

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Researchers first spotted the fossilised leaves of the ...