While ecologists believe invasive species play a major role in more than 60% of plant and animal extinctions, stopping them in their tracks is almost impossible. Biodiversity reporter Phoebe Weston ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee’s rivers and streams are among the most biodiverse freshwater systems in the world, but one of their most important inhabitants is increasingly at risk. Freshwater mussels ...

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — A member of Kentucky wildlife is under threat. A proposal put forth Monday to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service could change its fate. According to a press release from the ...

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NEW ORLEANS— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed to protect the Alabama hickorynut in the Mobile Basin as endangered under the Endangered Species Act. The agency also proposed to protect ...

Solstice Creek mussels like these can only be found in one Piedmont stream. North Carolina biologists have discovered a new freshwater mussel that’s only found in a short stretch of a Piedmont stream.

BOWLING GREEN, Ky.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed to protect the Kentucky creekshell as endangered under the Endangered Species Act and designated 545 river miles of critical ...

Plain pocketbook mussels propogated at an aquatic conservation center in Erie County are being stocked in Dunkard Creek in Greene County. Aquatic biologists from the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat ...

A new paper in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, published by Oxford University Press, finds that efforts to eradicate invasive molluscs in Idaho’s Snake River may kill off valuable freshwater ...

The first-of-its-kind project is happening in Lake Michigan near Milwaukee, and Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore and Muskegon, Michigan.