Ontario Parks is looking for more volunteers as it tries to counter the environmental and economic effects an invasive water plant is taking on the Ottawa River. Saturday was "Water Chestnut Pull Day" ...

Volunteers gathered Saturday at Salmon Creek in Braddock Bay to tackle an invasive plant choking the waterway.

An invasive aquatic plant that crowds out native species and impacts boating and fishing has been found in the St. Lawrence River near Ogdensburg. The invasive water chestnut forms dense mats of ...

Aquatic water chestnuts – not to be confused with the ones used for cooking –can quickly cover water surfaces and block sunlight from reaching the bottom.

An invasive plant is threatening the health of Oneida Creek and the ecosystem of Oneida Lake. Water chestnuts are spreading ...

Taylor West, Chautauqua Lake and Watershed Management Alliance project manager, holds up a water chestnut plant pulled from the Chadakoin River. Submitted photos The presence of the water chestnut is ...

Describing the action of non-native invasive plants in the environment can sound like the stuff of a science fiction movie plot. The aliens land here from far away foreign lands and soon take over ...

Employees from Western New York Partnership for Regional Invasive Species Management have found water chestnuts in the Chautauqua Lake Outlet. The group was surveying areas where water chestnut had ...

The loss of American chestnut trees, Castanea denatata, ranks as one of the most devastating botanical disasters in U.S. history. Before the introduction of chestnut blight in 1904, there were over 4 ...