Two coastal Alabama residents are hoping to fight climate change with a new invention that makes oyster farming easier.
Andy Depaola, a retired microbiologist with the Food and Drug Administration, and Ben Raines, a former AL.com reporter and current environmental fellow at the University of South Alabama, lead the project “Restoring Oysters for Climate Sustainability,” or “ROCS.”
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