Kudzu is an invasive vine that’s become a persistent problem in the American South. But there are efforts to tackle it.

HELENA-WEST HELENA, Ark. — In Helena-West Helena, Arkansas, where kudzu covers almost everything, an army of goats is successfully eating away at the problem. It’s a kudzu feast for this herd of goats ...

"Desperate times call for desperate measures" is an aphorism dating back to Ancient Greece, and it was exemplified in an Atlanta man's hilarious Axios editorial about his surprisingly effective ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — One of the country’s most notorious invasive plants is expected to become a major pest throughout the Midwest. A study published earlier this year by researchers at Purdue ...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- Stoddard County Commissioner Greg Mathis says there is an increasing amount of kudzu appearing in the county and that an eradication program should be started before the plant ...

BRUNSWICK, Md. (AP) — On the River's Edge Trails in Brunswick, behind Brunswick Middle School, an invasive vine called kudzu blankets and drapes the trails and trees. "It looks like Jurassic Park," ...

Kudzu, originally native to Japan, is known as "the vine that ate the South." The federal government began paying farmers $8 an acre in the 1930s to plant it across the south because it was touted to ...

MARYVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Goats from the Knox Goats Company are helping Carpenters Elementary School in Maryville to combat kudzu while teaching students about creative problem-solving. The animals ...

In this installment of Answer Man a reader ponders the invasive species that "ate the South," wondering why kudzu does not seem to have eaten the national forest. Question: In the letters to the ...

Across the road from Norman Wilder Forest, it looks like another planet. A hillside is covered in bright green lumps, all blanketed in the same thick mat of leaves. Those lumps used to be trees. Now, ...