News tagged with oysters
Cement, the glue that holds oyster families together
Oyster reefs are on the decline, with over-harvesting and pollution reducing some stocks as much as 98 percent over the last two centuries.
Aug 24, 2010 |
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Changing Chesapeake Bay acidity impacting oyster shell growth
Acidity is increasing in some regions of the Chesapeake Bay even faster than is occurring in the open ocean, where it is now recognized that increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide dissolve in the seawater ...
Jun 10, 2010 |
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Oyster Shells Tell Story
(PhysOrg.com) -- Some oysters provide pearls but all oyster shells have a story to tell, if you know how to look for them. One compelling story about North America’s first successful English settlement has ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Jun 04, 2010 |
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'Metabolic taxation': Even oysters pay taxes
In physical, as in financial growth, it's not what you make but what you keep that counts, USC marine biologists believe.
Mar 18, 2010 |
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Autonomous underwater robot reduces ship fuel consumption (w/ Video)
As the U.S. Navy minimizes its dependence on foreign oil, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) is a front runner in supporting and bringing forth innovative solutions to fuel consumption challenges.
Aug 24, 2009 |
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Invasive species threaten critical habitats, oyster among victims
A study of oyster reefs in a once-pristine California coastal estuary found them devastated by invasive Atlantic Coast crabs and snails, providing new evidence of the consequences when human activities move ...
Jul 17, 2009 |
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Is the Pacific Ocean's chemistry killing sea life?
The collapse began rather unspectacularly. In 2005, when most of the millions of Pacific oysters in this tree-lined estuary failed to reproduce, Washington's shellfish growers largely shrugged it off.
Jun 21, 2009 |
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Auburn scientists find tar balls are better left alone
(PhysOrg.com) -- The April 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the waves of tar balls deposited on the beaches shortly thereafter prompted the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to produce ...
Mar 26, 2012 |
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New report questions hard-edged 'living shorelines' in estuaries
The increasing use of large breakwaters and other hard structures to reduce erosion in "living shorelines" along coastal estuaries may be no better for the environment than the ecologically harmful bulkheads they were designed ...
Mar 05, 2012 |
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Tsunami debris floating across Pacific toward US
(AP) -- Refrigerators, TVs and other debris dragged into sea when a massive earthquake hit Japan last March, causing tsunamis as high as 130 feet to crash ashore, could show up in remote atolls north of Hawaii ...
Feb 28, 2012 |
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Electricity sparks new life into Indonesia's corals
Cyanide fishing and rising water temperatures had decimated corals off Bali until a diver inspired by a German scientist's pioneering work on organic architecture helped develop a project now replicated worldwide.
Dec 26, 2011 |
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Japan scientists study oyster 'language'
Scientists in Japan have begun studying the "language" of oysters in an effort to find out what they are saying about their environment.
Dec 06, 2011 |
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Disease-resistant oysters call for shift in Bay restoration strategies
Development of disease resistance among Chesapeake Bay oysters calls for a shift in oyster-restoration strategies within the Bay and its tributaries. That's according to a new study by researchers at the Virginia ...
Jun 27, 2011 |
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Cholera oyster outbreak sickens 11 in US
As many as 11 people have reported getting sick from eating raw oysters contaminated with cholera bacteria in northern Florida, officials said on Tuesday.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 10, 2011 |
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Oyster shells are a scientific treasure trove
The breakdown of the seasonality pattern marked a period of dramatic climate change 16–12 million years ago. This is the finding of an analysis of fossil oyster shells from the area around Vienna. The ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 18, 2011 |
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Oyster
The word oyster is used as a common name for a number of distinct groups of bivalve molluscs which live in marine or brackish habitats. The valves are highly calcified.
Some kinds of oyster are commonly consumed, cooked or raw, by humans. Other kinds, such as pearl oysters, are not. These are considered an aphrodisiac.
For more information about Oyster, read the full article at
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