During the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, evaluations for federal research grants ground to a halt and ...

For decades, biologists have warned that humanity is precipitating a sixth mass extinction. By some estimates, species are ...

Across America, a handful of extraordinary national parks give travelers the rare chance to see endangered animals thriving ...

On Sept. 23, Emily Rees was planting thousands of seedlings of New Mexico vervain, a purple wildflower beloved by pollinators, on the plateau above the Rio Grande Gorge near Taos when she received a ...

An usually wet September and October has greened up Arizona's outdoors, but La Niña could erase some of the gains.

After biking through the higher-elevation forests, Republic reporter Joan Meiners finds a different Arizona Trail below the ...

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department encourages waterfowl hunters to take action to protect Texas water bodies from the spread of aquatic invasive species like zebra mussels and giant salvinia that ...

Millions of trees and plants across the country are being killed by this invasive species. Scientists say the spotted lanternfly has been found in up to 19 states after first being discovered in the U ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Drive through Pinal, Maricopa, or Yavapai counties, and the ...

When Michiganders think about invasive plants, a white speckled field of garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata) or the tall flower clusters of purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria) may come to mind. But ...

Call it knotweed, or Japanese bamboo, or Reynoutria japonica, it’s all the same plant. Easy to identify, it is a big perennial herb that grows as a shrub up to eight feet tall. It dies back to the ...