All the Pretty Beach Horses
Can the descendants of horses left by Spanish explorers coexist with native plants and animals on North Carolina's environmentally sensitive Outer Banks? A study will tell.
Browsing Tag
Invasive Species
27 posts
Ladies and Gentlemen — Meet the Beetles
A persistent pest from China chomping on American trees spotlights the economic and aesthetic damage that foreign species may cause in new environments.
‘Poison’ alter ego: Deadly Nightshade
The dark, intensely sweet berries of deadly nightshade may taste appealing, but ingesting one too many could be…
‘Stingstro’ alter ego: The Stinging Tree
Australia is home to some of the world’s most deadly animals including the box jellyfish, the funnel-web spider,…
‘Inferno’ alter ego: Cogongrass
Wanted dead, never alive. Having taken up root on every continent except Antarctica, cogongrass is considered one of…
‘Spreader’ alter ego: Killer Algae
The most threatening of comic book villains can escape captivity, be it a prison or a mental asylum,…
A New Leaf: Making Paper From Weeds
An invasive ecological bad guy may be able to paper over his evil ways and absorb some carbon as well.