Signs of New York City’s oyster heyday are hidden across Lower Manhattan. Pearl Street in the Financial District, takes its name from the valuable stone-like objects sometimes found inside oysters and ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Oyster shells recycled through the SCORE program go directly back into sustaining local living ...

LONG BEACH TOWNSHIP, N.J.–Every year, hungry restaurant patrons slurp down fat, juicy oysters, their greyish-white shells cast aside with little thought. But here on this picturesque barrier island, ...

Billion Oyster Project is working to engage 1 million New Yorkers in an ambitious goal: to re-establish oyster reefs in New York Harbor. The nonprofit aims to introduce 1 billion oysters by 2035, ...

Orange County Coastkeeper earlier in the week received a bounty of oyster shells, 724 pounds worth, from the recently resurrected DTLA Oyster Festival, brought back after a five-year hiatus. The hard ...

RED HOOK — Projects to revive the Hudson and East rivers’ “functionally extinct” native oyster populations are making slow progress, reports Gothamist, with as many as half of the oysters returned to ...

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. — The Marine Discovery Center’s oyster recycling program, Shuck & Share, has kept more than one million pounds of oyster shells out of the landfill. The program recycles shells ...

WILLIAMSBURG — The average fully-grown oyster can filter 50 gallons of water a day. That’s just one of several reasons illustrating the importance of bivalves to New York Harbor. And, if one oyster ...

A team of coastal advocates took to Biloxi Bay on Tuesday, releasing 125 million oyster larvae onto oyster-shell reefs in an effort to restore populations in the Gulf Coast. The privately-funded study ...

Dozens of high school students and other volunteers spent Friday morning stuffing recycled oyster shells into mesh bags — the first step in a plan to create a "living reef" to fight land loss along ...