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Jim Bailey of Infosuperior spoke with four kayakers who are paddling the perimeter of Lake Superior, and cleaning up beaches, collecting microplastics samples and sauna-hopping along the way.

Administration cites safety factor to justify move; Cautious auto industry response.

Marked water trails in this state make it easy for people to give paddling a try.

Microplastics detected in the suds of microbrews.

“What we’re doing is nothing unnatural,” said the author of a study to produce quolls that don’t like the taste of deadly toads. “It’s just matchmaking.”

The invasive plant is widespread in New York and was recently spotted for the first time in Virginia, but conservationists believe they can fight it.

Some invasive ladybugs feast on other species of ladybugs, but not as much when a kind of toxic aphid is around.

The invasive insects turned up in Pennsylvania in 2014. Now the state has placed 3,000 square miles under quarantine, and scientists worry the pest will spread.

The largest bat in Europe, a vulnerable species, found shelter in a city park’s trees. Then they started to turn up dead.