Text messages and chats online can include a combination of words, pictures and emoji to convey a message. Words and pictures can be easily understood, but deciphering emoji might feel like ...

Support us to deliver journalism without an agenda. Oysters are experiencing mass die-offs along the US coastline, leaving farmers distraught and scientists struggling to come up with answers as ...

Alternative but ultimately rejected names for the Oyster card were "Pulse" and "Gem" Earlier this year, Transport for London announced it would no longer be allowing Oyster card top-ups at ticket ...

On oyster farms, death is coming without warning. Just as the small shellfish get to their second and final season of intensive culture — when they are large enough to sell — they’re gone ...

At 2 p.m. on the Saturday after Columbus Day, an annual tradition occurs in Oyster Bay. Contestants, equipped with a knife, line up ready to open as many oysters as they can in four minutes during ...

Spring oysters, packed with umami before spawning, have been attracting attention in recent years. We visit Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan's largest oyster-producing region, to learn more.

Oysters once formed extensive reefs along much of Europe's coastline—but these complex ecosystems were destroyed over a century ago, new research shows. The paper, published in the journal ...

The oyster parasite MSX has been detected in more prominent oyster growing and harvesting areas on P.E.I., says the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. The new detections are in East River ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I focus on the marine environment, its preservation, and the living things found in it. As summer’s ocean-based tales of renegade sharks ...

Cape Cod husband and wife oyster farmers were flipping bags on their oyster grant in Little Pleasant Bay in Orleans last week when a colorful little fish caught their eye. When Tim Silva was ...