Dozens of high school students and other volunteers spent Friday morning stuffing recycled oyster shells into mesh bags — the first step in a plan to create a "living reef" to fight land loss ...

I get this feeling every time I eat an oyster. But this isn’t about oysters: this is about the shells. Their bowl fits into the curve of your palm. The outer shell is rough, ragged, tactile.

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - In Leeville, 59 tons of oyster shells are being used to combat erosion and help restore the area’s coastline. On Friday morning (Dec. 6), NFL Green leaders gathered in ...

Orange County Coastkeeper earlier in the week received a bounty of oyster shells, 724 pounds worth, from the recently resurrected DTLA Oyster Festival, brought back after a five-year hiatus.

Oyster shells are bulky and plain, but the treasures they hold go beyond their tasty meat and beautiful pearls. One company in Hong Kong is turning them into materials for constructing buildings.

According to research institute Texas Sea Grant, Pearls are formed when an irritant, like a grain of sand, enters the oyster shell. The oyster then coats it with layers of nacre. Since these ...

The Orange County Coastkeeper collected 724 pounds of discarded oyster shells at the DTLA Oyster Festival over the weekend. The two-day festival, which showcases international oyster cuisine ...

The abundance of these molluscs in the city’s waterways was such that Pearl Street, which traverses the Wall Street Financial District, was paved with oyster shells. In 1609, the English navigator ...

16.56 x 25.56 x 21.62 cm. (6.5 x 10.1 x 8.5 in.) ...

Critic Bill Addison returns to Vespertine, an out-there tasting-menu restaurant that could be equally exhilarating and ...