A multi-agency team took a hands-on approach to boosting native mussel populations in the Cuyahoga River this fall, marking a ...

“Finding rare species like these mussels challenges us to be even more thoughtful about plans that take mussel habitat into consideration.” Beyond ecological value, the project will hopefully expand ...

Mussels have been disappearing from a Big Darby tributary for decades but a recent study found none in one tributary.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Local crews have wrapped up the mussel relocation project in the Grand River much earlier than expected, allowing the plan to restore the rapids to move forward. Before ...

Shelby Township — It took only minutes for one of the fatmucket mussels tucked into the Stony Creek streambed to nestle into its new home. The small creature cracked open its shell and extended a ...

Changes to the Gowanus Canal, part of a major cleanup project in the notoriously polluted waterway, are resulting in loss of mussel habitat. But community intervention could increase the Atlantic ...

A graduate student at the University of Minnesota Duluth who previously worked in the national park, she and another diver ...

Freshwater mussels play an important role in keeping the Great Lakes healthy, but experts say native mussels in Michigan are ...

CEDAR FALLS - The wind whipped over the water. Raindrops stung as they pelted the face. Rumbles of thunder could be heard in the distance. Though the conditions were anything but ideal, Tony Brady ...

Mussels clean the water from pollutants but all of those pollutants pass through their body. The threshold the mussels can ...