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The Endangered Species Act requires that every U.S. plant and animal be saved from extinction, but after 50 years, we have to do much more to prevent a biodiversity crisis

Saving the endangered Appalachian monkeyface mussel in a high-stakes race. Fifty years after the Clean Water Act was passed, mussels grown in laboratories are starting to resume their unheralded mission of purifying waterways.

Mussels bred in the lab are once again beginning their unsung work of filtering rivers, 50 years after the Clean Water Act became law.