What is kudzu? Did you know that this plant isn't actually from the southern US? These are fast-growing, invasive vines native to Japan and southeast China that have become a major ecological concern.

Many native plants in the U.S. cannot possibly move themselves fast enough to avoid climate-change-driven extinction. If ...

CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) — Often called “the vine that ate the South,” Kudzu is an invasive plant that has its grip over a great deal of land in West Virginia, and it all began with an expo.

If these aggressive and invasive plants aren’t contained, they can end up harming the environment, animals, insects, and ...

One of the numerous downsides of economic globalization over the past couple of decades has been the rise of invasive alien species ... the case with plants like kudzu and insects like the ...

"An invasive plant as fast-growing as kudzu outcompetes everything from native grasses to fully mature trees by shading them from the sunlight they need to photosynthesize," said The Nature ...

while invasive insects such as the spotted lanternfly can actually kill crop plants. In forest systems, kudzu — a highly invasive vine in the United States — grows rapidly and smothers trees ...

This month the Pisgah Conservancy’s Invasive Plant Management Crew celebrated one year of tackling non-native invasive species in the forest .

Kudzu is a legume species and is closely enough ... Cattle ranchers in the south are dealing with a couple of invasive plant species that are degrading the quality of their pastures and forcing ...

In the United States — they are most often found in Florida, Texas and Hawaii — they are considered an invasive species ... you are all too familiar with kudzu, an aggressive vine that ...

28 is National Invasive Species Awareness Week and Virginia is very familiar with many of the pesky species. From Spotted Lanternflies and Brown Marmorated Stinkbugs, to the Kudzu plant ...