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Something is seriously wrong with the Oslo Fjord and no one seems to fully understand why. Both fish and mussels have been disappearing, while the fjord’s characteristic seabirds known as ærfugl (common eider) have been found dead from Agder in…
A New Zealand resident stumbled upon hundreds of thousands of dead mussels at Maunganui Bluff Beach on the North Island. Scientists say the mussels likely died from heat stress from rising ocean temperatures. Courtesy of weather.com
PHOTO CREDIT KURT HOLTZ The Fresh water mussel is nature’s river cleaner. But every autumn, for three years running, there’s been a mass die off of one of the most important species. Biologists say, if this continues, what’s at stake…
PHOTO: Thousands of molluscs washed ashore last week at Cheynes Beach on Western Australia’s south coast. (Supplied: Raeline Smith) Thousands of small green mussel shells were strewn across more than 1 kilometre of beach, with authorities warning people to exercise…
A variety of recently dead freshwater mussels at Wallens Bend, Tennessee, in the Clinch River. Photograph: Meagan Racey, US Fish and Wildlife Service Mussels, the backbone of the river ecosystem because they control silt levels and filter water, are facing…
Dead mussels near Teller June 19, 2019. . (Photo by Lucy Oquilluk) Residents from two Northwest Alaska villages say they found large numbers of dead mussels and krill washed up along shores in June, contributing to fears in the region…
(Kent Porter / The Press Democrat) 2019 As a scientist, Jackie Sones trains her focus on observable data — what can be documented, quantified and compared. But it’s taken some effort recently to keep her emotions at bay as she…
Whatever is killing fragile mussels in Big Darby Creek has spread along 50 miles of the protected waterway, and state and federal environmental officials say they are no closer to figuring out the cause after several weeks. Biologists, mollusk…
What caused thousands of blue mussels to appear along the shoreline in the Jamesport area this week hasn’t officially been determined. However, a local biologist believes the culprit may be rising water temperatures in the Long Island Sound. “They’ve…
People have been feasting on mussels which have washed up in their hundreds of thousands on False Bay beaches in recent weeks – but authorities say it isn’t a good idea to eat them. They cite a red tide,…
