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French researchers are turning discarded oyster shells into eco-friendly concrete with significantly lower CO₂ emissions.
In brief: they've grown thicker shells. The paper documents two sets of field experiments, conducted 20 years apart, ...
At the historic port of Socoa on France’s Atlantic coast, they’re experimenting with low-carbon mortar containing processed oyster shells to reinforce centuries-old stone harbour walls.
They live on the Atlantic coast of North America ... Horseshoe crabs also have 10 eyes—a pair of compound eyes on the front shell and more photo receptors along their tail.
A fatal leukemia that decimates soft-shell clam (Mya arenaria) populations in the Atlantic may be caused by a contagious ... cancer cells isolated from various locations along the East Coast shared ...
It took several months to get them back on their feet, or in this case fins, but 10 Kemp's Ridley sea turtles were released by the Mississippi Aquarium.
This week, the Texas coast has seen an influx of lightning whelks washing up with the tides. Recognized as the official state shell of Texas ... found along the Mid-Atlantic and Gulf coasts ...