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 ...

Armed with oyster shells, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources and SCORE volunteers deploy a natural remedy to slow ...

For the fifth year in a row, the oyster population in the Chesapeake Bay is doing well after decades of combating drought, ...

This Earth Day (April 22, 2025) marks the online launch of a groundbreaking documentary, City of Shells: Our Forgotten Oyster ...

The eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) is an ecosystem engineer that creates intertidal reefs, filters water, promotes denitrification, stabilizes shorelines, and provides habitat throughout the ...

We first showed you these reef balls in 2021. They were installed in December of that year and they were made of oyster ...

A small team is rescuing a “ridiculous amount” of shells from restaurant trash bins and using them to rebuild oyster habitat ...