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.

This tropical stretch of coastline on the Caribbean Sea between Cancun and Tulum is stacked with luxury ... Alternately, the glamorous Regent Phu Quoc on a popular holiday island is a fabulous fly-and ...

Starting when he was a Ph.D. student in the 1990s, he has monitored the evolution of two common species of sea snails living ... In brief: they've grown thicker shells. The paper documents two ...