Non-native species -- displaced either by global trade and travel or by climate change -- pose “a severe global threat” to local biodiversity, food security as well as public health, a new report has ...

Alien species are the main driver of recent extinctions in both animals and plants, according to a new study. Scientists found that since 1500, alien species have been solely responsible for 126 ...

Although it was known that the number of alien species increased during the last decades, it remained unclear whether or not the accumulation of alien species has already reached a point of slow-down.