NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An environmental group that makes oyster reefs from shells collected at New Orleans area restaurants now has a new partner so anyone can contribute. “After enjoying oysters at home ...

KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — Conservationists, wildlife biologists and students are using recycled oyster shells and manufactured wire reefs to stabilize the shoreline along the Kiawah River. The Conservancy ...

Along the South Carolina coast, an unlikely hero is helping defend fragile shorelines and revive marine ecosystems—discarded ...

Emma Romito has never been in the grip of sucking pluff mud or hammered apart oyster clusters on the public shellfish beds in Murrells Inlet. She doesn’t track the tides, know it’s important to rinse ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hong Kong's oyster reefs, almost decimated by over a century of dredging and land reclamation, are being restored by scientists.

A group in Louisiana is taking a unique approach to help create new reefs. They're using recycled oyster shells to create living reefs in the Bayou. Decades of coastal erosion and land loss have ...

Recycling oyster shells from restaurants not only provides reef habitat for new oysters and other fish, but it also benefits the marine economy and enables the mollusks to improve the environment by ...

SAN ANTONIO – St. Mary’s University served 100,000 oysters during Fiesta 2025. Instead of discarding the shells, they were repurposed. They were packaged up and driven 150 miles to the Texas coast to ...

FULTON, Texas — Fulton Oysterfest began on Thursday and runs through this Sunday. Last year's festival saw tens of thousands of oysters shucked. That is why the Harte Research Institute at Texas A&M ...

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