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Duke Study: Rivers Contaminated With Radium and Lead From Thousands of Fracking Wastewater Spills

Bakken Oil and Gas in Williston, North Dakota on the Missouri River. Photo Credit: EcoFlight Thousands of oil and gas…

5 years ago

Microplastics in our mussels: the sea is feeding human garbage back to us

Shellfish are the natural filter systems of our seas, mechanisms of purity. So, to discover in a report released on…

6 years ago

Washington state to use dog to detect invasive mussels on boats

This photo provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows a group of zebra mussels. Government officials are cracking down…

6 years ago

Lake Superior No Longer the Clearest of the Great Lakes

Photo: Lake Superior, seen from the Park Point beach in Duluth in August. Many people who've spent much time around…

7 years ago

EPA researching freshwater mussels as biofilters in PA, MD and WV

The Environmental Protection Agency today announced a new project to develop innovative methods to improve our understanding of the distribution…

7 years ago