A team of researchers released 125 million oyster larvae into the Gulf on Tuesday in an effort to boost oyster populations, ...

To give new life to shoreline habitats, a growing number of projects are harnessing the reef-building power of oysters.

The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources is woekingOn June 21, 2025, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources ...

A massive network of conservation groups bet big on a business plan to reverse the striking shorebird’s decline—and won.

Researchers call oyster reefs habitat multipliers since so many marine critters beyond oysters utilize them for foraging, spawning and living areas. An acre of the artificial reef, which lies just ...

Scientists warn that the future of our oceans and climate goals depends on reconnecting the ecological threads that hold ...

Of course, overharvesting, disease, pollution and habitat loss eventually devastated the Chesapeake oyster population. The big reefs were fished out by the 1920s. Five decades later, the industry ...

In 2022, WJZ reported how the Chesapeake Bay's oyster reef habitat is becoming decimated because of over-harvest, disease in the oyster population, and pollution. "The oyster population is ...

She said oyster reefs have been declining because of overharvesting and habitat destruction. “Oyster reefs, we’ve learned, are the most threatened marine habitat,” Pollack said. Oysters ...

Last year, with maritime traffic limited in the Patapsco River channel during the typical planting season, oysters grown in and around the Baltimore Harbor that would have gone to Fort Carroll ...