Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

Alien life could take many different forms, but one possibility is captivating scientists: alien "plants". What would they look like? And how could we find them? On the Orion arm of the Milky Way ...

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 ...

Biodiversity is great in theory, but there are reasons to fend off invasive species and the knock-on effect of their presence Britain would be a wasteland if it weren’t for immigration. Fifteen ...

From lochs and lakes to rivers, ponds and canals, there is a diverse range of freshwater habitats in the UK, which is good news not just for biodiversity but also the economy, where they are ...

The introduction of 'alien' bees - meaning species that are not native - into a region in Egypt might be killing off some plant species as well as native bees in the area, researchers have found.