And as the seasons change, so does the state of the lake—its clarity, zooplankton levels, algae growth, and more shift with the weather. “It’s like a health check or blood work for the lake ...

Researchers often spend winters inside teaching, with the fieldwork season beginning in the spring, he said. Ted Ozersky of ...

Since October, the detection of this invasive mussel has only spread. It's now been found in four other counties, from ...

Originally from Europe and Asia, this tiny predatory zooplankton has spread rapidly through North America since its introduction in the 1980s. It was first detected in the Finger Lakes in the ...

The state Department of Environmental Conservation Region 4 this week announced the completion of three new artificial ...

Ted Ozersky of the Large Lakes Observatory at the University of Minnesota-Duluth uses a net to collect zooplankton on Side Lake in 2018. (Steve Kuchera / Forum News Service) “And finally ...

Winter is coming soon, and that means snowy and icy surfaces. We use de-icers to avoid those treacherous conditions, but the ...

Taken together, however, the report found 80 per cent of all microplastics found in Canada are fibres shed from textiles or ...

Earlier this week, in Napa County, the Bureau of Reclamation sent out a news release stating that Lake Berryessa had ...

A groundbreaking study found that invasive zebra mussels significantly alter aquatic ecosystems, and are associated with ...

Researchers compared mercury concentrations of fish collected from lakes with and without zebra mussels and sampled water, zooplankton, invertebrates and fish from both nearshore and open water zones.