Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Competition for the rarest pearls is fierce. Late last year a mesmerising two-strand necklace of multicoloured ...

In a groundbreaking initiative, farmers from Jharkhand, particularly women, are being trained in the art of artificial pearl farming in the picturesque Dighalipukhuri pond, thanks to Cotton University ...

Pearl oyster farming represents a sophisticated intersection of aquaculture, marine biology and sustainable economic development. The production process involves the careful selection of oysters, the ...

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 ...

Pearl farming has helped to lift a seaside village out of poverty in South China's Guangdong province. Nanzhu, or south pearl in English, refers to the pearls produced in the Beibu Gulf off the coast ...

For thousands of years, pearls have been a prized gemstone used to craft jewelry and other adornments. But North America has just one freshwater pearl farm that cultivates the shiny objects, located ...

South Dakota native John Latendresse was on a cross-country road trip in 1949 when he found himself at Kentucky Lake in Tennessee. Looking out at the divers combing the fertile lakebeds for mussels to ...