The Teeming Universe explores scientifically inspired alien ecosystems across radically different planets. One frozen world ...
Beneath the icy silence of Antarctica's famous Dry Valleys lies a world so unusual that it often resembles another planet. Invisible to the naked eye, microscopic organisms survive in some of the ...
What's the Bonin Islands? / Kazuto Kawakami -- Impacts of invasive alien species on native ecosystems on the Bonin Islands / Naoki Kachi -- The cause of mollusk decline on the Ogasawara Islands / ...
Introduced species generally get a bad press – but not all alien invaders are villains, says Ken Thompson in Where Do Camels Belong? WE HAVE all heard a lot of bad stuff about introduced species: they ...
Every day, on nearly every ship cruising the world's oceans and lakes, millions of stowaways are hitching a lift. When set free at the end of their voyage, some set up home in their new surroundings - ...
Discusses the threat of non-native plants and animals to U.S. species and ecosystems. Highlights twelve alien species (the "dirty dozen"): zebra mussel, purple loosestrife, flathead catfish, tamarisk, ...