East End communities are meeting the challenge of restoring and protecting oyster habitats. (Credit: Charity Robey)) Seafood connoisseurs consume oysters throughout most of the year across Long Island ...

They are exquisite, elegant, aphrodisiac, and rich in minerals like calcium, zinc, copper, and selenium ... make sure the ...

Green Island Cement is turning oyster shells into cement for buildings in Hong Kong. Oyster shells are 91 per cent limestone, which is a key ingredient in cement. Mining limestone usually produces ...

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.

Wilds are best eaten piping hot, not inside a restaurant but en plein air, at an oyster roast. The practice of cooking oysters over open fire belongs to a far greater, ancient tradition.

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.

One hand treading water, Bayden Russell heaves a green mesh bag bulging with oyster shells above his head, as his colleagues stretch down from a small boat to retrieve it. On deck, the team works ...

Volunteers from the not-for-profit Ozfish set out on weekly missions to collect oyster shells from large restaurants and shuckers around Brisbane, bringing roughly four tonnes of shell back to ...

This is my pearl,' added Bryant, parading the calcium carbonate-coated particle ... of sand or some other irritants gets into an oyster shell, spurring the oyster to coat itself with thin layers ...

If you're seeking alternative natural sources of calcium, consider oyster shell powder, limescale, or calcium sulphate. When it comes to nitrogen and carbon, these nutrients are vital too.

A large number of fish and oyster spat have died at a research facility near West Beach in Adelaide. Around 70 per cent of the state's breeding line of oyster spat was lost, but an oyster grower ...