Feral animals are running amok on Australia’s islands – here’s how to stop them

Eradicating feral animals from islands can be expensive, but new research shows where to get the biggest bang for our buck

At the mercy of chromosomes

Sets of it decide whether a plant will dominate or vanish

Problem fish

Farmed salmon escape their pens, threaten wild cousins

How alien invasive plant species threaten Western Ghats

Forest fires and man-eating tigers make for easy headlines but what about invading flora in a forest?

Mother of Machiavellianism

Invasive plant prepares native lizards for a toad fight

Removing alien plants can save water: We measured how much

Positive effect of clearing alien trees higher in dry years compared to wet years, study predicts

Invasive alien species threaten agriculture and biodiversity in Africa: Study

Africa may lose about $3.66 trillion annually due to impact of IAS on agriculture

Pentagon UFO videos steal limelight from COVID-19

Older, leaked clips of unidentified flying objects now confirmed by US defence department

A weed and a tale

In the forests of Kanyakumari, an invasive species has been proliferating since the 1960s. It is time to remove it altogether

Crazy ant gets a name

Species that gave pest exterminators a hard time identified

Accidental discovery of life deep beneath Antarctica’s ice shelves baffles scientists

As many as 16 sponges and 22 unidentified species attached to a rock were discoverd away from the sunlight under harsh conditions  

Have Alligator Gar in India started to reproduce? Not for the moment

A photograph showing a kingfisher holding what appears to be a juvenile Alligator Gar created a minor scare among fish experts

All alien invasive species are guilty until proven innocent

The dogma that invasive alien species should be eradicated is now suspect

'There are more than 60,000 tree species in the world & my book had room for only 80!'

Jonathan Drori, author of Around the World in 80 Trees tells S S Jeevan about the phylogeny, ecological services, and the sociological …

Poaching taking a toll on gorilla, zebra population: IUCN

The Eastern Gorilla has moved from ‘Endangered’ to ‘Critically Endangered’ category with its total population now …

Weeding out belief

Myth that invasive species dominate new habitats debunked

Measured efforts

Complete restoration of ecosystems may not be good

Culled, efficiently

A new model that cuts down the costs of controlling invasive animals

The macaque monkeys of Mauritius: an invasive alien species, and a major export for research

Feral macaques in Mauritius are a formidably harmful invasive alien species, destructive to many animal and plant species which are heading …

Aliens in Toda paradise

The pastoral Toda community in the upper Nilgiris is losing its Shola grasslands to invasive species

The ethical and cultural case for culling Australia's mountain horses

Horses need to be removed from Australia's mountains.The debate now is around ethics and their role in Australia

A crab’s coup strategy

Control reproduction of competing species

A brewing invasion

The next invasion of insect pests will be discovered via social media

The proliferation of smart phones means many people have an encyclopedia of knowledge, a high-resolution digital camera and GPS in their pockets

‘Alligator Gar discovery a signal to revise list of fish introduced to India’

After the discovery of an Alligator Gar in Pune’s Pawna Dam, experts say the time has come to revise the list of fish being imported in the …