I love those eureka moments when you come across something special that’s been right in front of your eyes, but you never knew it. I had one just recently, when I heard for the first time about a ...

Lawns are thought of, and to an extent are, deserts of biodiversity with seemingly little of interest to the bio-curious. But there’s almost always something waiting to be appreciated. Out walking the ...

The Whoosh Explore Canoe Club said it was a "race against time" to remove the pennywort ahead of nesting season A canoe club is looking for volunteers to help weed the River Lea ahead of the bird ...

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The invasive species was growing at a rate of 20cm each day An invasive plant has been cleared from a 23-mile (37km) stretch of river in a five-year project. Thick mats of the non-native pennywort ...

A charity which helps look after canals and rivers said the growth of a type of weed in the River Soar was a "big problem". The Canal and River Trust has launched an appeal to help raise funds to ...

Victoria Ranua, a botanist for the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community, was performing a rather routine plant survey when she discovered a species never before seen in Minnesota: the buttercup ...

This herb grew in abundance beside drains during my kampung days. My late mother pounded its leaves with salt and applied them on mouth ulcers. Sometimes, she used them to make herbal tea. We called ...

Non-native bugs will be first attempt at using biocontrol on floating pennywort, after years of research South American weevils have been released into Britain’s waterways by the government in order ...

An invasive plant has been cleared from a 23-mile (37km) stretch of river in a five-year project. Thick mats of the non-native pennywort were removed from the River Great Ouse between Bedford and ...