Plots of invasive reeds near Lake Erie grow so thick that not even mosquitoes venture in. Biologists say you’re lucky if you can find a slug.

A group of scientists has mapped the U.S. coastline of the five Great Lakes using satellite technology to identify stands of Phragmites australis, according to a release from Michigan Technological University.

Researchers at Auburn University have gotten the go-ahead from the town of Orange Beach, Ala., to see if there are residual effects from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on the town’s water, according to Gulf Coast News...

And effort to prevent an annual fish kill in California’s Pescadero lagoon was a success after workers dug an artificial breach in sandbar between Pescadero lagoon and the ocean, according to the San Mateo Daily Journal.

When powerful storms hit the Louisiana Gulf Coast, monitoring technology from a Louisiana State University research group is there to measure how the storm packs its punch and how wetlands take the hit.

When researchers from the University of Idaho set out to track amphibians, they ran into a problem.

A Louisiana State University professor studying insect populations in wetlands near the Gulf of Mexico found that the Deep Water Horizon Oil Spill caused drastic decreases in insect populations, according to a release from the university.

Louisiana State University researchers forecasted Hurricane Isaac’s storm surge while their sensors collected real-time data in coastal wetlands, verifying their models, according to an LSU Research Communications news release.

The National Mussel Watch program run by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration received budget cuts at the federal and state levels, prompting Washington state officials to ask for the public’s help monitoring mussels, according to the Kingston...

Each summer, an ocean current pushes water from deep in the Pacific up to the surface waters on the Oregon coast.