Forest health depends as much on prevention as on cleanup.

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 ...

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

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.

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A "strange" prehistoric plant species is the lone representative of a ...

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 ...

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

Scientists have discovered a unique fossil that does not match any known species of flowering plants, an advance that sheds more light on the planet's ancient diversity. Researchers first spotted the ...