EditorialMud-stained kudzu marks the high water mark of Lotts Creek in Perry County, Kentucky, Sunday, July 31, 2022. (Austin Anthony/The New York Times)
EditorialKudzu grows over the pumps at an abandoned gas station near a former mountaintop coal removal site in Martin County, Ky., Oct. 15, 2021. (Maddie McGarvey/The New York Times)