Pages tagged Sustainability
Culture
What Ancient Oyster Heaps Reveal
A Florida mound of 20 to 30 million oysters, harvests that lasted millennia, and a parasite snail that shows people once skipped summer oysters.
Environment & Sustainability
Clean Energy, Contaminated Oysters?
Farming oysters between offshore wind turbines looks like a model of ocean sustainability. A 2025 study asks what the turbines' corrosion protection leaches into the water.
Environment & Sustainability
From the Plate to the Pillar: Oyster Shells as Building Material
The shell left on the plate is mostly calcium carbonate, the same mineral at the heart of cement. What shell can and cannot do in concrete, and in the carbon ledger.
Environment & Sustainability
Oysters and Coastal Ecosystems
Oysters filter, remove nitrogen and build reef. Before overharvest, Chesapeake oysters could filter the whole Bay in about three days. Today it takes most of a year.