Invasive Species

Fish Fence is a Shocking Failure: Is it Time to Zip up the Great Lakes?

Henry Henderson | Posted 10.23.2009 | Chicago


Henry Henderson

The only thing protecting Lake Michigan from the menace of a voracious invading predator that all agree will decimate the ecosystem is a quirky Rube Goldberg contraption.

Killer Miso Soup Kelp Invades San Francisco Bay

AP | JASON DEAREN | Posted 08.13.2009 | Green


SAN FRANCISCO — A fast-growing kelp from the Far East has spread along the California coast from Los Angeles to San Francisco Bay, worrying mari...

Ken Salazar Tours Everglades In Airboat To Learn About Invasive Species (PHOTO)

Getty | Posted 06.28.2009 | Green


EVERGLADES, FL - MAY 28: United States Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL), United States Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Florida Governor Charlie Cr...

EPA Considering Taking Up Forgotten Fight In Great Lakes

AP | JOHN FLESHER | Posted 03.28.2009 | Green


TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — The new head of the Environmental Protection Agency says the Obama administration will reconsider rules that critics say ...

Britain Launches Major Offensive On Grey Squirrels

AFP | Posted 03.14.2009 | Green


They may be cute and cuddly but that won't be enough to save grey squirrels in northern Scotland after the launch on Tuesday of Britain's largest ever...

Climate Change May Encourage Invasive Species To Spread

AP | MIKE STARK | Posted 03.09.2009 | Green


SALT LAKE CITY — Climate change will likely shuffle some of the West's most troublesome invasive weeds, adding to the burden faced by farms and ...

Pigeon Smuggler Tried To Bring Birds Into Australia Via Pants

BBC NEWS | Posted 03.08.2009 | Green


A man has been caught with two pigeons stuffed in his trousers after he got off a flight from Dubai to Melbourne. Australian customs officials say th...

Groups Sue EPA Over Lax Invasive Species Rules

AP | JOHN FLESHER | Posted 02.13.2009 | Green


TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Environmentalists sued the federal government Monday over new rules that critics say do too little to prevent cargo ships...

Bush's Environmental Legacy on GMOs Is Irreversible

Jeffrey Smith | Posted 01.05.2009 | Green


Jeffrey Smith

After all weather effects of 21st century climate change have disappeared from the earth's surface, two destructive impacts traceable to George Bush's policies will yet remain.

Scientists: Reverse Age-Old Engineering Or The Great Lakes Suffer

AP | SOPHIA TAREEN | Posted 12.14.2008 | Green


CHICAGO — Connections engineered more than a century ago between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed should be changed to block ...

Hoosiers Vs. Kudzu: Indiana Strikes Back Against "Leafy Invader"

AP | RICK CALLAHAN | Posted 09.21.2008 | Green


INDIANAPOLIS — A fast-growing vine that's left parts of Indiana beneath tangles of greenery is coming under assault as the state ramps up its ef...

Red Lionfish Invade Caribbean

AP | DAVID McFADDEN | Posted 09.18.2008 | Green


SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A maroon-striped marauder with venomous spikes is rapidly multiplying in the Caribbean's warm waters, swallowing native ...

The Web of the North

Carl Pope | Posted 06.03.2008 | Politics


Carl Pope

Many ecological challenges could have been avoided. In fact, many could still be tamed -- but it will require thinking about their interconnection, not just solving each in the cheapest fashion.