Pearl farms in the Kimberley provided the two major winners at the 2025 Perth Airport WA Tourism Awards, held at Crown Perth ...

For thousands of years, pearls have been a prized gemstone used to craft jewelry and other adornments. But North America has ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Big Island company wants to start farming oyster pearls off the coast of Oahu. And if Black Pearls Inc. secures an ocean lease from the state, the company could start the farm near Keehi Lagoon next ...

A pearl farm has discovered a rare treasure trove of 10 pearls inside a single oyster. The mollusc was found at Cygnet Bay Pearl Farm, which has been run by four generations of the Brown family in 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 ...