Happy 250th Birthday Americans and to everyone around the world that shares the original American values of individual rights ...

Using goats to clear weeds, vegetation and invasive plants is happening in South Knoxville, where Knox Goats has dozens of ...

The city of Knoxville plans to spend $80,000 to remove invasive kudzu from Fort Dickerson Park. Previous efforts to control the kudzu, including using goats, have been unsuccessful in the long term.

Change is inevitable; sometimes for the good, and sometimes it brings big challenges. Our native landscapes are full of wonderful specimens that create ecosystems that interact well together. When we ...

ATHENS — Beer showers rained down. People were hugging and high-fiving strangers. Shirts were off and being waved like towels. Chanting. Cheering. Pandemonium had broken out on Kudzu Hill. Moments ...

From kudzu to emerald ash borers, invasive species threaten local ecosystems. Here is how you can help stop them.

The security on the riverbank is bad. Kudzu is running wild. When I say kudzu, I mean the plant, Pueraria montana. There is hardly anyone on the riverbank, which isn't particularly scenic, besides me ...

Knoxville is gearing up for a fight against a pesky invader that put the Chapman Highway Arby's on the radar of social media users around the world. "Kudzu, you've overstayed your welcome," city ...

The National Forests in North Carolina, part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, note that, "Kudzu spreads at a rate of 2,500 acres per year and plagues many southern states. Since it grows so fast ...

Kudzu, originally native to Japan, is known as "the vine that ate the South." The federal government began paying farmers $8 an acre in the 1930s to plant it across the south because it was touted to ...

Nearly every Monday morning, five restorationists with Conserving Carolina guide volunteers through the steep hills of Norman Wilder Forest in Tryon, North Carolina. Armed with chainsaws, thick gloves ...