Off the coast of Japan’s verdant Saikai National Park, the Kujukushima Islands lie scattered amid a sprawling network of narrow inlets. Their name literally translates as “99 islands,” though there ...

Off the coast of Japan’s verdant Saikai National Park, the Kujukushima Islands lie scattered amid a sprawling network of narrow inlets. Their name literally translates as “99 islands,” though there ...

Lab-grown pearls are the latest innovation in sustainable luxury. Discover how they're made, if they're real pearls, and why ...

FORT PIERCE, Fla. -- Florida's next cash crop might be pea-sized pink pearls grown in the brown bodies of queen conchs. Two scientists at Florida Atlantic University's Harbor Branch Oceanographic ...

BOCA RATON, FL (November 4, 2009) – For more than 25 years, all attempts at culturing pearls from the queen conch (Strombus gigas) have been unsuccessful—until now. For the first time, novel and ...

A great irony of pearl history is that the least expensive cultured pearl product in the market today rivals the quality of the most expensive natural pearls ever found. The price-value anomaly is ...

“Pearls are nature’s perfect gem, natural, renewable, sustainable and growing them enhances the ocean environment," says Marty Hurwitz, MVEye. For too long, pearl jewelry has been an afterthought for ...