Kenney hopes to inspire ocean conservation by highlighting the critical role oyster reefs play in ecosystem health and resiliency When Kaysha Kenney first began collecting discarded oyster shells from ...
For an oyster, creating an internal environment for calcification that forms its distinctive hard shell is essential. But new Harvard research has found that these bivalves may outsource the work, ...
A small team is rescuing a “ridiculous amount” of shells from restaurant trash bins and using them to rebuild oyster habitat in Long Island Sound. Credit... Supported by By Kate Selig Photographs and ...
A historian inspects oysters from a reef on the Nansemond River, in Virginia. Tess Crowley / The Virginian-Pilot / Tribune News Service via Getty Images The Chesapeake Bay—the largest estuary in the ...