The Town of Hempstead is building two reefs in the western bays off of Lido Beach using seafood shells. Supervisor Laura Gillen says the plan will save the shores from erosion and the bays from ...

AMES, Iowa – Two Iowa State University graduate students are just back from the Gulf of Maine with another big catch of clam shells. Shelly Griffin and Madelyn Mette recently boarded a lobster boat, ...

AMES, Iowa – Alan Wanamaker, working as a postdoctoral researcher from 2007 to 2009, was charged with beginning to compile a 1,000-year record of the marine climate for a spot in the North Atlantic ...

How can we predict the future? A good way is to look into the past, and who better to ask than one of Earth’s longest-living animals: the quahog clam. These modest mollusks don’t look like much, but ...

An analysis of clam shells suggests the North Atlantic subpolar gyre has had two periods of destabilization over the past 150 years: one around 1920 and the other from 1950 through present. When you ...

Volunteers in Clinton spent Wednesday morning gluing seeds to clam shells. It is not some kind of arts and crafts project. Instead, it is an innovative way to try to save the Long Island Sound’s ...

Since the first fiber optic cables rolled out in the 1970s, they've become a major part of everything from medical devices to high-speed internet and cable TV. But as it turns out, one group of marine ...