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 ...

Once the mats are soaked with black gunk, oyster mushrooms will take over, growing on the mats and absorbing the oil. National mushroom expert Paul Stamets was in town the weekend after the spill ...

The recent Cosco Busan oil spill in the San Francisco Bay may ... Once the mats are soaked with the oily black gunk, oyster mushrooms will be placed on the mats and will grow and absorb the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Until now. The BP oil spill is killing off a centuries-old way of life, and endangering one of the world’s largest wild oyster systems. Businesses nationwide have been hurt or destroyed because ...

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 ...

The BP oil spill brought life and business to a temporary halt for people in Louisiana's seafood industry. Many have returned to work now that the well is capped. But the oyster business remains ...