With a tap of his walking stick on the newly unveiled track, the legendary American long-jumper Bob Beaman signalled on Friday morning that the Olympic athletics programme was under way. An expectant ...

Freshwater mussels — often overlooked and endangered — play a critical role in filtering water across the country. Now, a ...

If you've been following the Olympics action in Paris, you might have noticed that this year's track looks rather different. With an all-purple aesthetic, Paris has taken a break from the usual dusty ...

RALEIGH – Researchers at North Carolina State University have designed and demonstrated a new system that allows them to remotely monitor the behavior of freshwater mussels. The system could be used ...

Late at night when the tide is low enough, an army of volunteers will fan out along Puget Sound and help anchor cages of native Penn Cove mussels near the shore. Starting Oct. 26, the cages will go ...

Laurie Niewolny, state Fish and Wildlife biologist, and Tim Jones, manager at Penn Cove Shellfish, prepared Penn Cove mussels for a pilot project two years ago that looked at what contaminants were ...

A group of University of Washington students spent Friday morning shucking mussels at the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife's lab in Olympia. They had thousands of mussels to shuck for their ...

ROME -- On a recent September evening, 17 people gingerly waded into the cool, fast-flowing waters of the Bark River outside this Jefferson County village and commenced a search for some of ...

The mussels you see on the shoreline might not just be soaking up some rays... they could be key to studying climate change. An research team has published data from robotic mussels whose sensors have ...

SPOKANE, Wash. - Acting on a report from a witness, the Idaho State Department of Agriculture was able to track down a boat contaminated with an invassive mussel. The boat was from Lake Mead in Nevada ...