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Surrounded by shrimp farms and a small strip of mangroves that resist the advance of the sea at the mouth of the Jaguaribe River, the Cumbe community, with a population of 1,000, has already faced the ...
The Kinabatangan River is the last major area in Malaysian Borneo’s Sabah state with a semblance of forest corridor linking ...
When a plant species spreads beyond its habitat, it is usually seen as a threat to native flora and fauna. But what happens ...
Pink salmon, Purple Asian clams, marine invertebrates that form spaghetti-like colonies and a nematode worm that causes extensive deaths of trees are among the new entries in experts' watchlist of ...
The memories of first encounters with certain plants last a lifetime. Often, such plants are discovered growing in places ...
as well as member of the Massachusetts Invasive Species Advisory Group. Originally from China and Vietnam, the Bradford pear was brought to the United States in the early 1900s, before becoming ...
Environmentalists in Portugal have warned that irrigated olive plantations with up to 2,500 trees crammed into one hectare – and have a lifespan of one or two decades instead of hundreds of years – ...
An invasive species was confirmed in an Oregon river for the first time, officials said. Stephen Walker via Unsplash A fisherman reeled in a strange-looking sea creature with hairy claws from an ...
One of the answers is swamp milkweed, but the invasive species have to go first. Unfortunately, ridding a property of various invasive species can be a challenge — as troublesome as their name implies ...
Deemed the northern snakehead fish (Channa argus) because of its unforgettable head that resembles a snake and its python-like coloration and pattern, MDC Invasive Species Ecologist Angela ...
“Our team has discovered a new fossil ant species representing the earliest undisputable geological record of ants,” Anderson Lepeco, a study co-author and paleontologist from the Museu de ...
The Han army’s out-of-control fire attack, followed by the years of burning and farming that followed, pushed the species (Chinese swamp cypress, formally called Glyptostrobus pensilis ...