Although the invasive water-weed elodea was officially eradicated from the Kenai Peninsula this summer, the statewide threat remains. Floatplanes, which can inadvertently carry colonies of the plant ...

Efforts to eradicate the invasive aquatic plant "Elodea" have had mixed results. Herbicides are being considered in Fairbanks, after mechanical means proved unsuccessful there, while on the Kenai ...

A variety of agencies in the state are working to eradicate the invasive aquatic plant elodea. This summer, elodea was detected and treated in Anchorage’s Lake Hood, and a survey to search for elodea ...

FAIRBANKS — An herbicide treatment to fight the invasive elodea weed began last week on the Chena Slough. It’s the first time the chemical has been used on an Interior waterway. Elodea is a common ...

It was a difficult summer at Devil's Lake, a popular Lincoln City recreation destination where a fast-growing water weed is threatening to overtake a lake locals fear is slowly dying. Green mats of ...

The sunlight-collecting organelles known as chloroplasts solve a packing problem: how to optimize photosynthesis without ...

Invasive plants and animals are gaining a foothold in Alaska. They are slowly but relentlessly changing our environment and economy — changes that most people are unlikely to notice because they occur ...

Georga Prossick shows the flooding in neighbor’s backyards in Puyallup. Clark’s Creek, which normally flows behind the trees planted in Prossick’s yard, started to flood yards in the neighborhood in ...

Mat-Su residents and state agencies are trying to gather enough support to stop an invasive water weed in the area before it’s too late. Elodea, an aggressive aquatic plant, has made itself at home in ...

FAIRBANKS — The invasive aquarium plant elodea was spotted in two new Interior bodies of water this week, but efforts to slow its growth within its previous locations have worked well, said Aditi ...

Plants and animals have many similarities when it comes to what they need to survive. Both need water and air. We often think of animals using oxygen and glucose for cellular respiration and producing ...