{"id":214836,"date":"2025-05-27T01:16:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T06:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/the-cost-of-some-invasive-species-could-be-16-times-higher-than-we-thought"},"modified":"2025-05-27T01:16:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T06:16:00","slug":"the-cost-of-some-invasive-species-could-be-16-times-higher-than-we-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/the-cost-of-some-invasive-species-could-be-16-times-higher-than-we-thought","title":{"rendered":"The cost of some invasive species could be 16 times higher than we thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-cost-of-some-invasive-species-could-be-16-times-higher-than-we-thought.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From river-clogging plants to disease-carrying insects, the direct economic cost of invasive species worldwide has averaged about $35 billion a year for decades, researchers said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1960, damage from non-native plants and animals expanding into new territory has cost society more than $2.2 trillion, more than 16 times higher than previous estimates, they reported in the journal Nature Ecology &amp; Evolution.<\/p>\n<p>The accelerating spread of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/invasive+species\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">invasive species <\/a>\u2014from mosquitoes to <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/wild+boar\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">wild boar<\/a> to tough-to-eradicate plants\u2014blights agriculture, spreads disease and drives the growing pace of species extinction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From river-clogging plants to disease-carrying insects, the direct economic cost of invasive species worldwide has averaged about $35 billion a year for decades, researchers said Monday. Since 1960, damage from non-native plants and animals expanding into new territory has cost society more than $2.2 trillion, more than 16 times higher than previous estimates, they reported [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,39,385,12,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-economics","category-evolution","category-existential-risks","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}