invasive plants

Invasive species often spread by hitching a ride on anglers, especially anglers who don’t clean their gear after fishing. Though this is widely known, research suggests many anglers still don’t clean, even though it protects the very thing they’re after – fish. So, can anything be done to change their minds?

Invasive species often spread by hitching a ride on anglers, especially anglers who don’t clean their gear after fishing. Though this is widely known, research suggests many anglers still don’t clean, even though it protects the very thing they’re after – fish. So, can anything be done to change their minds?

Mike Smith spent most of his career as a diver with the Detroit Police Department recovering cars, guns, and sometimes bodies from the city’s murky…

The invasive aquatic plant called European frogbit was found in Oceana and Ottawa counties this summer. Frogbit is a small green plant that looks like a…

Today on Stateside , a Wayne State University law professor remembers Judge Damon Keith, the longest-serving black judge in American history who died...

When picking plants for your garden next spring, be careful about what you choose. A species called Japanese knotweed has been known to eat people’s…

Invasive plants and animals are an expensive problem in the United States. Federal agencies spent more than $104 million last year to control them. But...

Researchers who work in wetlands in Michigan are taking a new approach to invasive plants. They’re harvesting them for fertilizer and fuel.

Researchers who work in wetlands in Michigan are taking a new approach to invasive plants. Instead of removing plants like phragmites and switchgrass,…

Plants usually don’t get as much love as cute animals. Sometimes it’s hard to get people fired up about an endangered plant. But Jane Kramer’s trying to...