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Long-standing Indigenous practice of adding shells to sand helps young clams withstand ocean acidification
New research from the University of California, Davis, reveals why adding crushed shells to beach sand helps protect shell-making animals—such as clams, oysters and mussels—from the detrimental effects of ocean acidification.
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Researchers at UC Davis’s Bodega Marine Laboratory mixed crushed shells, or shell hash, into beach sand and placed baby Pacific littleneck clams in the mixture. Over a 90‑day experiment they tracked the clams’ growth and the surrounding water chemistry. The study, published in *Biogeosciences*, shows that the added shells help protect shell‑forming animals from the harmful effects of ocean acidification.
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