New Zealand Imports Foreign Workers: Dung Beetles
Burned by past introductions of "helpful" foreign species, New Zealand inches toward releasing the imported insects to clean up its pastures full of other introduced animals.
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Body Count: Putting a Price on Invasive Insect Damage
There’s a 1-in-3 chance that the next decade will see a serious new foreign insect bore through America’s forests.
Black Rats Take the Bait on Palmyra Atoll
Biologists claim victory over rodents on Palmyra Atoll in an ongoing effort to restore seabird populations, this time in the tropics.
The Tastiest Enemy: Eating Invasive Species
The idea that if you can’t beat ’em, eat ’em has found new resonance in the battle against one particularly voracious invasive species, the lionfish.
T.C. Boyle Interview: Nature and the Novelist
Miller-McCune Q&A: In "When the Killing's Done," novelist T.C. Boyle once again examines humankind’s conflicted attitudes toward the natural world.
Tracking Invasive Species from Riverside to Pandora
Plant physiologist Jodie Holt's study and management of weeds has earned her kudos in Hollywood and in academe.
Snakeheads: the Asian Fish That Terrified Arkansas
How a government team called Operation Mongoose tried to get rid of the invasive northern snakehead by poisoning 400 miles of Arkansas waterways.
Invasive Weeds? There’s An App for That
How is Thoreau like an iPhone? Both gather data about natural phenomena that allow scientists to better protect the environment.
Volunteers Battle Purple Plague, Whistling Frog
Citizen crews sidestep bureaucracy to confront invasive species in Hawaii, the nation's extinction capital.
Cold, Hard Facts About Saving Florida’s Oranges
Exceptionally cold temperatures and a vicious bacterium are giving the Sunshine State's citrus trees a battle, but science in on the oranges' side.