Atherosclerosis is the buildup of fats, cholesterol, and other substances in and on the artery walls. This buildup, called plaque, results in the thickening or hardening of the arteries, substantially ...

Freshwater mussels are the kind most people don't even know exist. They live for decades—more than a century in some cases.

BOWLING GREEN, Ky.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed to protect the Kentucky creekshell as endangered under the Endangered Species Act and designated 545 river miles of critical ...

NEW ORLEANS— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed to protect the Alabama hickorynut in the Mobile Basin as endangered under the Endangered Species Act. The agency also proposed to protect ...

Greenhouse gas emissions are heating our atmosphere and oceans, and turning seawater more acidic. One of the myriad expected ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee’s rivers and streams are among the most biodiverse freshwater systems in the world, but one of their most important inhabitants is increasingly at risk. Freshwater mussels ...

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — A member of Kentucky wildlife is under threat. A proposal put forth Monday to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service could change its fate. According to a press release from the ...

Solstice Creek mussels like these can only be found in one Piedmont stream. North Carolina biologists have discovered a new freshwater mussel that’s only found in a short stretch of a Piedmont stream.

View of Lake Memphremagog from a hill near Mansonville, Eastern Townships, Quebec. Photo by Kevstan/Wikimedia Commons Scientists have found invasive zebra mussels in Vermont’s section of Lake ...