For example, after a major oil spill in the Pacific Northwest, environmentalists inoculated contaminated soil with oyster mushroom spores. Within months, the once-dead earth was teeming with new ...

These days, you can also find oyster mushrooms in most supermarkets ... Experiments have shown that the fungus can break down petroleum by-products—that is, eat oil spills—as well as filter out ...

Just last year, Durr successfully used the common oyster mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus) to clean up a diesel fuel and motor oil spill behind a widely used community center on Karuk tribal land ...

When it comes to cleaning up marine oil spills, it's best if you can use ... and it's derived from oyster mushrooms. Such membranes are typically made of not-so-eco-friendly petroleum-based ...

Asked why oyster mushrooms have been effective on oil spills, Singh says: “They secrete enzymes in large quantities, and grow much faster than other mushrooms. Sometimes it takes eight weeks ...

The project begun last week will create almost five acres of oyster reef sanctuary in the Patuxent to address oil spill harm to fish, shellfish, marine organisms and birds. About 350,000 oysters ...

Oyster mushrooms in particular are being tested for their ability to clean up oil spills. A strain Stamets helped develop is tolerant to salt water and can metabolize hydrocarbons. One trial ...

He dampened a copy of the book and seeded it with spores, eating the oyster mushrooms that sprouted ... used diapers, oil spills and even radiation. A budding field of mycofabrication has ...

“If you look at what’s going on in the world,” Elson says — from oil spills to chemical waste ... District — King Stropharia and oyster mushrooms, for instance, will capture and devour ...

On April 20, 2010, the Gulf of Mexico saw the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion ... the negative impacts of the spill — but perhaps none more so than the oyster industry.