Natural Filters: Freshwater Mussels Deployed to Clean Up Polluted Rivers

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By Yale Environment 360Mar 31, 2015, 9:40 am313 pts
When rivers and streams become polluted, one of the first casualties is often freshwater mussels, which effectively filter An Eastern elliptio mussel out pollutants but can also be overcome by them. As a result, freshwater mussel populations worldwide have steadily dwindled. Now, however, conservationists and…

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