Environment & Sustainability
From the Plate to the Pillar: Oyster Shells as Building Material
The shell you leave on the plate is mostly calcium carbonate — the same mineral at the heart of cement and concrete. Researchers are turning millions of tonnes of aquaculture waste into construction material and a tool for capturing carbon.
Environment & Sustainability
Clean Energy, Contaminated Oysters
Farming oysters between offshore wind turbines was hailed as a model of ocean sustainability. Then researchers found out what the turbines were leaching into the water.
Environment & Sustainability
Oysters and Coastal Ecosystems
Oysters filter, build, and stabilize. A single acre of reef can process more than 24 million gallons of water a day — and that is the least of what it does.