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Invasive alien plants are plant species that grow in an environment outside their native habitat. If they successfully establish self-sustaining populations in these new environments—an event called ...

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 ...

More than 2,500 plant species have the potential to invade the Arctic at the expense of the species that belong there. Norway is one of the areas that is particularly at risk. Species that are not ...

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Many mountain ranges contain semi-natural habitats that have been little human interference. They are home to many animal and plant species, some of them endemic and highly specialized. Mountains have ...

Humans have cultivated plants outside their native ranges for thousands of years. But as the world became increasingly interconnected over the past five hundred years, the scale of cultivation of ...