University of Wisconsin–Madison

Category: Planetary Health

Mass freshwater mussel die-offs linked to new virus

Until now, no one has been able to pin down why the world’s wild, freshwater mussels—often unnoticed and underappreciated engineers of stream and river health—are facing massive, unexpected die-offs. In a paper published today (September 2, 2020) in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. …