With the spring temperatures, boaters will soon be out in force. The winds are forecasted to let up later this week. Authorities have always cautioned the public about picking up hitchhikers on ...

First, the invaders claimed Lake St. Clair, on the border of Michigan and Canada. By the early 1990s, they’d taken hold in the Great Lakes, then made their way into the Mississippi River Basin. The ...

When Colorado Parks and Wildlife personnel tested a small pond that feeds the irrigation system at the Mesa County Fairgrounds, looking for invasive zebra mussels, the results came back as a surprise ...

Evidence of invasive, destructive zebra mussels in the Colorado River could mean trouble for wildlife, boaters and water companies alike, but it’s not yet clear if the thumbnail-sized mollusk will ...

MIDLAND, Texas — An unexpected invader is contributing to Midland’s low water pressure: zebra mussels. The invasive species, known for wreaking havoc on lakes and rivers across North America, has now ...

It was a good year to be an invasive zebra mussel in western Colorado this year. For those seeking to combat the mussels’ spread in the region, not so much. Until 2022, no adult zebra or quagga mussel ...

Freshwater mussels play an important role in keeping the Great Lakes healthy, but experts say native mussels in Michigan are ...

DETROIT LAKES, Minn. - Imagine the land of 10,000 lakes with nothing more than 10,000 defunct lakes - fishless, weed ridden and shores littered with hazardous sharp shells. All of this could happen if ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Now, the mussels threaten to reach the country’s last major uninfested freshwater ...

Now, the mussels threaten to reach the country’s last major uninfested freshwater zones to the west and north: the Columbia River Basin in Washington and Oregon, and the waterways of Alaska. In my ...