For hundreds of years, oyster shells have been transformed into beautiful, durable buttons. This tradition began in the 18th ...

Pearls are made by marine oysters and freshwater mussels as a natural defence against an irritant such as a parasite entering their shell or damage to their fragile body. The oyster or mussel slowly ...

For Super Bowl LIX, the NFL environmental program has tailored projects to address the unique needs of Louisiana, a region ...

A natural pearl will form in an oyster when a foreign object, like a grain of sand, gets inside the shell. To protect itself, the oyster will coat the unwelcome visitor with layers of nacre ...

The collapse of Florida’s oyster reefs serves as a stark reminder of the interconnected challenges we face: freshwater ...

they also serve as a natural water filter and a habitat for animals, including oysters that can use the beds as an anchor spot. “Living shorelines and using the oyster shells are really part of ...

The Coastal Conservation Association partners with Boone Hall to recycle oyster shells from the Lowcountry Oyster Festival, with volunteers from local high schools collecting shells at the festival.

The recommended spending comes about 10 months before a five-year moratorium on oyster harvesting is scheduled to end.

Natural pearls form when some kind of irritant, usually a small organism, makes its way into the shell of a mollusk like an oyster or a mussel. To protect itself from the invader, the mollusk ...

An ambitious project launched by an NGO called The Nature Conservancy aims to recover hundreds of oyster shells in order to help restore oyster reefs around Hong Kong Bay and elsewhere in the world.