quagga mussels

For the past three and a half decades, zebra and quagga mussels have fundamentally altered the ecology and hijacked the food web of the Great Lakes.Now scientists are trying new ways to put the mollusks in check, including infecting them with parasites and even crushing them with huge rollers. But will it be enough?

For the past three and a half decades, zebra and quagga mussels have fundamentally altered the ecology and hijacked the food web of the Great Lakes. Now scientists are trying new ways to put the mollusks in check, including infecting them with parasites and even crushing them with huge rollers. But will it be enough?

John Janssen remembers the moment he realized Lake Michigan was about to change.It was a September day in 1990 and he was diving looking for sculpin — an…

Dozens of dead loons washed up at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore last week. On Friday afternoon, the official carcass count was 32.The birds…

Lake whitefish are the most important commercial fish species in Michigan. But in the last decade, state biologists say fishers are harvesting about a…

Beaches along Lake Michigan are closed when E. coli bacteria gets too high. But a nasty critter found on the bottom of the lake might help keep the...

Here's a question for you lovers of the Great Lakes: Which lake is the clearest? You probably guessed Lake Superior. Well, that was true for a long time.…

Lake Superior is cold, deep and clear. But it’s no longer the clearest of the Great Lakes. Lakes Michigan and Huron have gotten clearer , bumping Lake...

An environmental group is testing a new weapon in the war on invasive, aquatic species in northern Michigan.It’s a pesticide called Zequanox that kills…