The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation is considering a state sought permit to apply an herbicide to 3 Fairbanks area water bodies infested with the invasive plant Elodea. Floridone has ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two species of Elodea, aquatic plants commonly known as Canadian and Nuttall's waterweed, have been found in recent years in a handful of lakes and sloughs near Fairbanks, Anchorage, Cordova, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Brazilian elodea, an invasive aquatic plant new to Minnesota waters, was discovered in Powderhorn Lake in south Minneapolis, according to Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) biologists.