Kazakhstan: Zebra Mussels Invade U.S. · Global Voices
Adil Nurmakov

Steve LeVine says that communities around the U.S. are in a panic over the creeping invasion of a native Caspian Sea mollusk called the Zebra Mussel, which had been first described in the eighteenth century by a visitor to the mouth of the Ural River in the northeastern Caspian near present-day Kazakhstan.