Meet Cambridge's mussel man
10 August 2023How new ways of shellfish farming could help meet future food needs.
Mussel memory
28 November 2022How fresh-water mussels and a stretch of the River Thames connected two postgraduate scientists separated by over half a century.
Mussel survey reveals alarming degradation of River Thames ecosystem since the 1960s
28 November 2022Scientists replicated a 1964 River Thames survey and found that mussel numbers have declined by almost 95%, with one species – the depressed river mussel – completely gone.
Britain on brink of freshwater species ‘invasion’ from south east Europe
13 October 2014New research shows multiple invasive species with the same origin facilitate each other’s ability to colonise ecosystems. By studying how these species interact as well as current population locations, researchers believe that Britain is heading for an ‘invasion meltdown’ of freshwater species from south east Europe.
‘Sugar-coated pill’ helps the medicine go down
02 February 2006Cambridge scientists have discovered a solution for controlling one of the world’s biggest environmental and ecological pests – the zebra mussel.
