The Center for Biological Diversity today notified the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service it intends to sue the agency for failing to make a timely decision on whether the western ridged mussel should be ...
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Federal regulators designated two U.S. freshwater mussels as threatened on Wednesday, a further sign of trouble for native mollusks that help cleanse waters by filtering ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — Most Americans know mussels as thumb-sized shellfish that occasionally adorn restaurant dinner ...
A mysterious die-off of freshwater mussels has biologists scrambling to figure out a cause. Freshwater mussels are critical to river ecosystems and to U.S. water supplies. We take certain parts of the ...
Should you come upon some laundry baskets being kept afloat in the water by brightly-colored pool noodles at a DuPage County forest preserve, be aware that they’re neither trash nor a prank. Their ...
The Northwest’s freshwater mussels are in trouble, rapidly declining in almost every population biologists study. Take 2005, when biologists counted historic numbers of freshwater mussels in the North ...
The S.C. Department of Natural Resources released into the wild on U.S. Forest Service property the first group of Carolina heelsplitters raised by agency biologists. These rare freshwater mussels are ...
RARITAN TOWNSHIP – The invaders have been repelled. Thanks to the New Jersey Conservation Foundation, Chinese pond mussels, an invasive species that could wreak biological havoc in the environment, ...
The latter is important because the dam holds back 10 feet of water that extends for 2½ miles upstream. If there is a breach, a massive rush of water downstream would be “catastrophic,” said Chris ...
An invasive species never before documented in the United States was eradicated throughout summer and fall of this year. The Chinese pond mussels were discovered in the ponds of a former fish farm in ...
Federal regulators designated two U.S. freshwater mussels as threatened on Wednesday, a further sign of trouble for native mollusks that help cleanse waters by filtering out pollutants as they feed.
An invasive species never before documented in the United States was eradicated throughout summer and fall of this year. The Chinese pond mussels were discovered in the ponds of a former fish farm in ...
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