A nearly $1 million project to restore a reproducing population of freshwater mussels into the upper reaches of the West Branch of the Susquehanna River is scheduled to begin next year. A National ...

Dec. 23—WILKES-BARRE — The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC) this week announced that a conservation partnership, of which it is a member, has been awarded a National Fish and Wildlife ...

‘The whole plan defies belief,’ says Roger Plowden of Severn Trent’s proposition to build a pipe to take effluent out of the River Clun, and put it into the Onny - Jay Williams For Roger Plowden, ...

Michigan is home to 43 species of native freshwater mussels, 30 of which are considered to be at risk of extinction. Among the many factors that threaten the hard-shelled bottom dwellers are ...

It would be a fascinating process even if it wasn’t intended to help clean the Niagara River. Three pregnant native freshwater mussels – named Elizabeth, Imogene and Nelly – have taken up residence in ...

The southeast United States is a place of unparalleled aquatic biodiversity, harboring 493 fishes (62% of U.S. fish species), at least 269 mussels (91% of U.S. mussel species), and 241 dragonflies and ...

The task force overseeing the restoration and maintenance of four lakes and dams in Midland and Gladwin counties ruined in epic flooding in 2020 has a multimillion-dollar job and a 2-inch problem.

What native freshwater mussels tell us about the health of the Willamette River. Native freshwater mussels are environmental superheroes that filter rivers across North America, but their future is ...

They may not have backbones, but freshwater mussels help uphold natural ecosystems in rivers and streams across Michigan, which is home to a couple of species federal scientists consider imperiled.