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 ...

NOT SEE ITS WATER DRAINED IN. TWO WEEKS AGO, WE TOLD YOU ABOUT THE APPEARANCE OF ZEBRA MUSSELS AND OFFICIALS DEBATING THE BEST WAY TO REMOVE THE INVASIVE SPECIES. WELL, SINCE THEN THEY HAVE MADE A ...

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 ...

Officials with the S.C. Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR) have confirmed that invasive zebra mussels have been found in containers of “moss balls,” a species of filamentous algae used in home ...

Alan Martinez gets the willies just thinking about Sept. 14. That morning he received a call at his superintendent’s desk in the headquarters of Highline Lake State Park. “We’ve got trouble,” the ...

For quite some time, invasive zebra mussels, roughly an inch and a half big, have caused massive problems for cities across Texas. The City of Midland is the latest to deal with the zebra mussels ...

Discoveries of the invasive and damaging zebra mussels have been piling up in Western Colorado, with recent detections in Eagle County, the Colorado River, and other waterways. Zebra mussels — and ...

(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 ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — Larvae from an invasive species of mussel were found in three samples taken on the Western Slope earlier this month, Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) officials said. The first ...

JEFFERSON CITY — Retailers and aquarium owners are being advised by the Missouri Department of Conservation to check moss balls for an infestation of zebra mussels. The department received a ...

Walleyes and perch taken from Minnesota lakes infested with zebra mussels contain starkly higher levels of mercury than those taken from uninvaded lakes, according to new University of Minnesota ...