The Great Lakes have endured a lot the past century, from supersized algae blobs to invasive mussels and bloodsucking sea lamprey that nearly wiped out fish populations.
Earth Sciences
Dec 19, 2022
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The zebra mussel has been a poster child for invasive species ever since it unleashed economic and ecological havoc on the Great Lakes in the late 1980s. Yet despite intensive efforts to control it and its relative, the quagga ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 19, 2022
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New research findings, and a resulting fact sheet, provide insights into the problematic spread of the invasive quagga mussel in Switzerland. The authors of the fact sheet are concerned that the aggressive spread of this ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 24, 2022
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A water tank full of coin-sized invertebrates may not be the first thing you'd expect to see in a materials science and engineering research lab.
Plants & Animals
Jan 18, 2022
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Recent news stories told of the Lummi Nation, west of Bellingham, describing a tiny, invasive crab—about 3 inches across the shell—as an "environmental disaster" and "one of the most destructive" aquatic creatures in ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 3, 2022
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In Lake Michigan, mussels face divers ready to scrape them off rocks, molluscicides pumped underwater capable of tearing apart their digestive systems, another invasive species hungry for their young and any number of death ...
Ecology
Aug 13, 2021
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A team of researchers from the University of Minnesota and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology reports that quagga mussels are now the primary regulator of the phosphorus cycle in the lower four Great Lakes. ...
The ongoing warming of Lake Michigan increases its susceptibility to Asian carp, in part by reducing the capacity of quagga mussels to act as an ecological barrier against the voracious algae-eating fish, according to a new ...
Ecology
Jul 8, 2020
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A common species of freshwater green algae is capable of removing certain endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) from wastewater, according to new research from the Desert Research Institute (DRI) in Las Vegas.
Environment
Apr 8, 2019
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Across the Great Lakes, collections of underwater rocks have been incubators for native fish eggs.
Environment
Jan 24, 2019
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