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In 2008, Colorado's Curecanti National Recreation Area started screening watercraft for invasive mussels at Blue Mesa. 10 years later, the reservoir remained completely mussel-freeIn 2008, Colorado’s Curecanti National Recreation Area began screening boats and watercraft for invasive mussels at Blue Mesa Reservoir. Th...- In 1970s, silver carp were brought to the US for aquaculture. Now the jumping fish threaten a $20 billion Great Lakes industryInvasive silver carp are rapidly approaching the Great Lakes, raising alarm over potential ecological and economic damage. The recent detec...
- 1,500 ships trapped in Gulf of Hormuz are quietly multiplying an underwater army that could unleash World's biggest bioinvasion eventGulf of Hormuz underwater army: Nearly fifteen hundred ships stuck in the Persian Gulf after fighting closed the Strait of Hormuz. These id...
- In 1988, cargo ships accidentally brought zebra mussels to the US in their ballast water, and they devastated the Great Lakes, but a 2026 study finds that after 20 years in Kansas lakes, they barely changed the fish or the waterA new study reveals that zebra mussel invasions in Kansas reservoirs over two decades have had minimal impact on water quality and fish pop...
- Luxury steamship that sank, resurfaced — then sank again found after 150 yearsAfter a 150-year absence, the luxury steamer Lac La Belle has been discovered in Lake Michigan. Veteran explorer Paul Ehorn and his team lo...
- Food Fables : Can tax evasion promote snail consumption in India?Giant African Land Snails, a destructive invasive species, are appearing in Goan fields. While a problem elsewhere, invasivorism, or eating...
- Scientists discover 40 mysterious craters beneath Lake Michigan. Here's what we know so farScientists found large craters in Lake Michigan using sonar technology. The discovery was made during a mission to map the lakebed. Researc...
- Most money for endangered species goes to a small number of creatures, leaving others in limboSince the passage of the Endangered Species Act, over 1,700 species in the US have been listed as threatened or endangered. However, there ...
- Worries over racism, waterways inspire push to rename fish
- Beware of Chinese mussel-flexing: Is China fishing in troubled waters with this new form of biological warfare?Zigzag-patterned Asian date mussels have travelled undetected across the globe to invade British waters.
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