"Not just a nuisance plant." Experts issue warning about aggressive spread of harmful plants: 'It could cripple the nation' ...

Right now there is a box-shaped, metal thing sliding along the surface of Lake Okeechobee. It’s called a boat, but it resembles an aluminum scooper that doesn’t look like it should float. It moves ...

Dubbed the 'Terror of Bengal,' water hyacinth devastates ecosystems by choking waterways. Yet, this invasive plant surprisingly offers significant medicinal benefits ...

A group of 80 volunteers banded together at BREC’s Blackwater Conservation Area Saturday to do battle with a stubbornly invasive plant invader that clogs many of Louisiana's waterways. The objective ...

The plant was first sighted on Kenya's popular Lake Naivasha about 10 years ago. Now, it has become a large, glossy mat that can cover swathes of the lake. To fishermen, the invasive plant is a threat ...

A free-floating aquatic plant native to the Amazon River basin in South America, water hyacinth is renowned for its rapid growth and attractive lavender-blue flowers, often used to decorate garden ...

It took almost all summer for the three water hyacinths I originally purchased in spring for my small pond to begin growing and expanding. All of a sudden I notice that they’ve taken over the real ...

Armed with pitchforks, Stacy McGaha and Pat Willging climbed into a canoe Saturday, ready to do battle with an invasive plant growing along the edges of upper Bayou St. John, not far from Lake ...

Assam: By transforming Water Hyacinth, an aquatic plant, women in Majuli, Assam has turned it into a useful crafts, such as ...

In spite of the huge threat it poses to sea foods and water transportation, water hyacinth has been found to be useful in many ways, reports KUNLE AKINRINADE. It was an unusual scene at the seaside in ...