Indeed, pearls from freshwater mussels lie at the center of the liveliest activity in pearling today. Natural freshwater pearls occur in mussels for the same reason that saltwater pearls occur in ...

Helsingin Sanomat reports that forestry giant Stora Enso cannot use the trees it felled near the Hukkajoki River last August ...

A mom who found a rare pearl inside a bowl of mussels at her birthday dinner has had it made into a "beautiful" piece of ...

Environmental damage took place when a logging machine owned by Stora Enso repeatedly drove over protected areas in ...

Pearl farming offers lucrative returns, with potential earnings of up to Rs 20 lakh per batch from a modest investment.

A new population of critically endangered freshwater pearl mussels has been found on a River Spey tributary. They were found by a graduate on a Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) placement scheme who ...

He had a bucket sitting on the floor he would put them in.” Turning mussels into pearls According to the U.S. Department of Interior 1906 Mineral Resource Guide, the value of the production of ...

The problem is that in England and Wales, adult freshwater pearl mussels do not get about much and their sex life is not what it used to be. As a result the youngest mussels are middle-aged ...

Dead pearl mussels from a previous poaching incident in Scotland Police have appealed for information after 80 freshwater pearl mussels were killed in a poaching incident on the River Spey in the ...

“Its coastal waters are home to the European lobster and brown crab, while the tidal river is home to the freshwater pearl mussel, Atlantic salmon, sea trout and European eel,” the Labour MP ...

A retractable foot, a siphon for sucking up water, powerful muscles, and, sometimes, a pearl. And you thought ... Like oysters and mussels, clams are bivalves, a kind of mollusk that's encased ...