There are several invasive species that still pose a threat in the United States today. One of them is the nutria. Nutria are large, semi-aquatic rodents that are native to South America.

In part due to a shortage of wildland firefighters, local fire departments are often asked to respond to fires on federal ...

Nobody knows exactly when, but nutria rodents began inhabiting ... to trap the nutrias after they were designated as an "invasive alien species" causing harm to the ecosystem.

Nationwide, nutria destroy more than $1 million in crops annually, according to the Texas Invasive Species Institute. Despite their healthy-sounding names, nutria are also known to carry ...

These insects are crop pests and pose a serious threat to the crop industries such as corn, grains, wheat, cotton, fruit, ...