Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study theorizes that, if kudzu continues to cover more acreage and to expand its range, it eventually could offset ...

Rising temperatures and lengthened growing seasons in the northernmost front of the kudzu’s range are creating a welcoming environment for the vine. Where it was once restricted to southeastern ...

Myrothecium also worked its anti-kudzu magic under a wide range of conditions, including the absence of dew. Additionally, host-range tests in 2005 showed that Myrothecium caused little or no ...

"Cut them down!" Homeowner met with shock after discovering invasive species buried under years of growth: 'You won't be able to go in your yard' first appeared on The Cool Down.

adding up to seven days of high ozone alerts during the summer to a range of 10 to 20 such days when there was no kudzu. Hickman cautioned that the study is based on only a small number of ...

To the shaded hole from the blistering sun, And you may have seen the swallow’s flight And the shooting star in the deep, dark night; But until you have watched the kudzu grow You never have ...

Over the past century, kudzu (rhymes with "mud zoo") has become a mythic feature of the Southern landscape. The vine and its overlapping, plate-size leaves shroud buildings, trees, billboards ...

As a young naturalist growing up in the Deep South, I feared kudzu. I’d walk an extra mile to avoid patches of it and the writhing knots of snakes that everyone said were breeding within.

Editor’s Note: Devoured: The Extraordinary Story of Kudzu, the Vine That Ate the South detangles the complicated story of the South’s fickle relationship with kudzu, chronicling the ways the boundless ...

Kudzu, a Japanese vine originally brought to North Carolina in the late 1800s, is an invasive species that spreads rapidly, taking over resources that other plants need to survive. It can cause ...