The public may be invited to discharge scattershot firearms at jumping fish from boats speeding along the bumpy waters of the Illinois River. What could go wrong? more ›

The round goby. This googly-eyed invasive species has been winning the war for the Great Lakes. But scientists have a new weapon to battle these foreign fish: a "seismic gun." What could go wrong? more ›

The Army Corps of Engineers has determined that adding zip to the zap of their anti-Asian carp electric barrier in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal will not blow up barges passing over it. Yay! more ›

The Khapra beetle is one of the most destructive invasive species in the world. more ›

So how does Paso Robles’ pioneering capybara stack up to the bane of the greater Great Lakes? more ›

The latest flare-up of our apparently never-ending Asian carp infection brings new evidence the fish are swimming in Chicago on the same day as officials leading the fight say otherwise. Oops. more ›

Fear not, the Army Corps of Engineers thinks it will only take "a generation or two" for a permanent Asian carp solution to swing into action on Chicago's waterways. more ›

Jellyfish! In a South Side Chicago Park District Park lagoon! Even if you don't see the little living floaters (there are plenty of other...ahem...floaters), Sherman Park is worth a trip. more ›

The press took an Asian carp cruise to hear about how the invasive fish have been kept at bay, but the New York Times and a leviathan netted in the Ozarks make clear what's at stake if they are wrong... more ›

Something is killing birds in Michigan. Lots and lots of them. A new theory explaining the thousands of carcasses washing up on beaches on the state’s Upper Peninsula points the finger at botulism. Nope, not from discarded dented cans or tainted spinach. Researchers think this might be another weird example of the havoc being wreaked in Great Lakes waters by the invasive quagga mussel. more ›

A battle has been waged at the bottom of Lake Michigan as two species of invasive mussels duked it out for dominance. Since both are about the size of your pinkie nail, think of it as a Clash of the Tiny Titans. In the last year or two, a winner has quickly emerged as quagga mussels have largely overrun their more celebrated cousins, the zebra mussel. And they have won in such spectacular fashion; it seems that now there are more quagga mussels in Lake Michigan than there are fish in all of the world’s oceans combined! more ›

After initially downplaying the threat of Asian carp accessing Lake Erie through flooding in waterways near Fort Wayne, the Indiana Department of Natural Resources has announced that they will build a carp barrier of their own. Unlike the the electric fence built to rebuff the invasive fish outside Chicago, the Hoosier state will build a physical mesh barrier to limit the movement of spawning carp in Indiana. According to the Journal Gazette: more ›

Larry Bird. Blue popcorn. Asian carp. What do they have in common? more ›

This week’s discovery of a bighead carp in Lake Calumet “could be a game changer” according to Illinois Senator Dick Durbin, who was at the Shedd Aquarium on Friday to rollout some new efforts to stave off the alien fish invasion. As neighboring states continue to overflow with angst over a potential carp catastrophe, the Senator seems to be signaling a ramp up of federal anti-Asian carp efforts in light of the troubling proximity of the fish to Lake Michigan. Beyond the captured carp, environmental DNA tests have also pointed to the fishy menace in Calumet Harbor and MWRD’s Wilmette Pumping station, both beyond the electric fence that was supposed to keep the massive filter feeders out of Lake Michigan. more ›

There is probably no good time to go swimming in the Little Calumet River…but now would be particularly bad since a two-mile stretch has been intentionally poisoned in the latest chapter of the Asian carp saga. more ›

In the fight to control the invasive Asian carp population, some wonder if there will be another casualty apart from the meddlesome fish: jobs. more ›