One of the world’s most invasive aquatic plants is now in DuPage County, much to the concern of researchers and state officials. But they said the discovery underscores how public education can keep ...

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AUSTIN (KXAN) — An invasive aquatic plant that can grow up to an inch a day is spreading on Lake Austin, but the city is working to fight it back. The plant is called hydrilla, and this is not the ...

Ask Claire Snyder about the discovery of hydrilla in DuPage County, and she doesn’t hold back. “I am kind of calling it public aquatic plant enemy No. 1,” Snyder says. Hydrilla turned up in a private ...

Vascular plants that moved back into the water did not simply shed complexity and shrink their genomes. New genomic work shows that many aquatic lineages instead rewire and expand key gene families, ...