'No barriers' let bug into water
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Investigators say there were no effective barriers against a bug which entered the water supply and left hundreds ill.
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Wind, a lack of rain and generous sunshine have combined to keep beaches on the southern shore of Lake Michigan bacteria-free and inviting to swimmers so far this summer.
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Researchers have new evidence that as the density of salmon farms increases, they can drive nearby wild salmon runs to extinction. The problem is sea lice, a natural parasite that normally attaches to adult salmon with little ill effect and has little contact with vulnerable juvenile salmon. All that changes, however, when fish farms move in.
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Description: The Environmental Protection Agency is taking its work to the friendly skies. After random testing found contaminants, the agency decided to start regulating the water aboard airplanes.
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In general, attacks by venomous stingrays are rare and usually occur when a person accidentally steps on one in shallow water.
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By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID     WASHINGTON  -- The strike would have come out of nowhere: One second the fish was swimming placidly, no danger in sight, a moment later it was lunch...
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A bacterium closely related to bugs that cause gangrene, tetanus and food poisoning could help to beat cancer.
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Let's see David Blaine do this. Watch a slippery cephalopod show why its kind are among the great escape artists of the deep.
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More than 1,600 wriggling blue crabs, so young that their shells are still soft and see-through, are taken from gurgling tanks and dropped one at a time into coolers filled with nets. Minutes later, they are loaded onto trucks, driven to two tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay and dropped into the water.
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By Liu Weifeng  A serious outbreak of algae in Anhui's Chaohu Lake is unlikely mainly due to imminent rains which dilute the concentration of the fast-spreading, foul-smelling plant, a senior environmental official said yesterday.
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HALIFAX (CP) - The buzzing. The biting. You&#39;d think there were already enough insects in the world to drive you buggy. However, a team of researchers at Dalhousie University in Halifax announced Tuesday that
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Worms squirming on a fishhook feel no pain -- nor do lobsters and crabs cooked in boiling water, a scientific study funded by the Norwegian government has found.
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A filter made from carbon nanotubes is fine enough to remove the tiny polio virus from water.
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The Bush administration yesterday finalized a plan that seeks to protect Columbia River Basin salmon without resorting to removing any dams - even as a last-ditch option.
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Despite their fearsome reputation, piranhas are wimps that gather in large shoals to protect themselves from predators, scientists said on Monday.
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By Kevin Miller, Bangor Daily News, Maine  Sep. 15--A   misty rain added bite to the morning air as fish biologist Fred Trasko, standing on the muddy banks of the Penobscot River in Bradley, watched some of his hard work fly away in the talons of a hungry osprey.
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By Georgia Evdoxiadis  gevdoxiadis@@dailyherald.com  Though a bane to lake bathers everywhere, so-called swimmer's itch is no more than a cycle of life gone awry.