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Jumping carp disrupt recreational boating and other water-based activities.
Environment

Chicago’s dirty water may be keeping invasive species at bay

By Lauren Leffer

A nearly 15-foot-long Burmese python devours a 77-pound deer in Florida.
Environment

Burmese pythons stretch their mouths even wider than we thought possible

By Andrew Paul

Peach blossom jellyfish
Environment

Invasive jellyfish ‘clones’ are spreading into Canada

By Andrew Paul

Nine-banded Armadillo, Dasypus novemcinctus, in water, Santa Clara Ranch, southern Texas, United States.
Environment

‘Chaos is the norm now:’ The blurry line between invasive and range-expanding species

By Lauren Leffer

lanternfly
Environment

What’s going on with spotted lanternflies?

By Lauren Leffer

Spotted lanternfly adult on leaf
Technology

This lanternfly-egg-hunting robot could mean fewer bugs to squish

By Charlotte Hu

a large mass of jumping worms in a bucket is compared to a person's hand size
Environment

The jumping worm invasion may be less worrisome than it sounds

By Ella Weaver

A red ant against a white background
Environment

A killer fungus could help the US South fight back against insatiable ants

By Philip Kiefer

Red and purple berries on a thorny green invasive shrub
Environment

Many Indigenous languages lack a word for ‘conservation.’ Here’s why.

By Jessica Hernandez

a woman in a face mask and blue protective gloves holds up a black collection apparatus in the air in a densely forested environment. a sloth hangs from a tree nearby
Environment

Airborne animal DNA could help biologists track endangered species

By Philip Kiefer

robot fish that mimics mosquitofish predator
Technology

Need to fight invasive fish? Just introduce a scary robot

By Charlotte Hu

a cow with a blue ribbon
Science

Inside the cutthroat world of competitive meat judging

By Popular Science Team

Periwinkles in a saucepan next to a small plate of bread and a glass of cider from an invasives-species menu at Juniper Bar and Restaurant in Burlington, Vermont
Environment

Welcome to invasivorism, the boldest solution to ethical eating yet

By Matt Hongoltz-Hetling

A brown wasp with long antennae on a tree trunk.
Environment

To help stop voracious tree-killing beetles, send in the Russian wasps

By Philip Kiefer

The government is raising an army of parasitic wasps to fight invasive beetles
Environment

The government is raising an army of parasitic wasps to fight invasive beetles

By Kristine Grayson/The Conversation

Green snake on a log
Environment

A guide to all the places with no snakes

By Sara Chodosh

A person wearing a baseball cap and tan jacket holds a pair of green, silver, and yellow pruning shears up to a tree branch, read to cut.
Science

Humans have become the biggest selection force in evolution

By Lauren Leffer

a woman on her side clutching her stomach as if in pain against a green background
Science

Viagra could have been a groundbreaking cure for period cramps

By Popular Science Team

A quarter of new invasive species were spotted by everyday citizen-scientists
Environment

A quarter of new invasive species were spotted by everyday citizen-scientists

By Shaena Montanari

Hawadax Island in Alaska
Environment

How scientists helped Alaska’s “Rat Island” shake off its namesake rodents

By Ellie Shechet