HAVANA, Ill. (AP) – As scientists aboard a research boat activate an electric current, the calm Illinois River transforms into a roiling, silvery mass. Asian carp by the dozen hurtle from the water as ...

Asian carp are large, voracious, and invasive. After their introduction to the United States during the early 1970s to ...

A similar railroad at Brandon Road or some other pinch-point in the canals that connect the Mississippi and the Great Lakes could be built.

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Scientists whose genetics-based research became a lightning rod in the debate over protecting the Great Lakes from Asian carp have made their case in a newly published ...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) – Asian carp are reproducing in more places and under more varied conditions than experts had believed they could, yet another reason to worry about the greedy invader’s ...

Silver carp jump in the Fox River in Illinois. Photo by Ryan Hagerty/U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service via Invasive Carp Regional Coordinating Committee. Midwestern states are spending millions every year ...

HAVANA, Ill. -- As scientists aboard a research boat activate an electric current, the calm Illinois River transforms into a roiling, silvery mass. Asian carp by the dozen hurtle from the water as if ...

Canadian and U.S. scientists announced Tuesday the launch of a joint study that will look at the likelihood that Asian carp will spread across the Great Lakes and decimate the fish populations if ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. -- The fish tank at the U.S. Geological Survey's Columbia Environmental Research Center looked like it held a swirling black cloud. A school of juvenile Asian carp was clustered together ...

"This research has with flying colors passed the most rigorous peer review possible."The discovery of Asian carp DNA by Lodge and colleagues in 2009 has been at the center of a legal dispute over ...