For years, Maryland has participated in celebrating National Oyster Day on Aug. 5. Although many gastronomists still encourage oyster consumption in months that end in “R,” this rule has become more ...

New research suggests oysters may rely on hidden microbes to help build their shells and maintain chemistry as oceans grow more acidic.

Oysters are more than a classic on menus in the D.C. area. They play a key role in filtering the Chesapeake Bay. Volunteers known as oyster gardeners help raise oysters for this purpose. News4 got an ...

A Gulf Shores High School student counts the number of oysters in a cluster at the Little Lagoon Preservation Society’s oyster gardens in Gulf Shores, Alabama, on Feb. 9, 2024. These oysters are part ...

Fishermen have taken oysters out of the Long Island Sound off Connecticut for generations. But Todd Koehnke and Tim Macklin have made it their mission to dump millions of old shells back in. Oyster ...

The Oyster House collects the empty shells to put back in the bay. Since 2016, they have recycled over 23 million oyster shells. “Oyster shells are valuable,” Director of Oyster House Marketing ...

Editor's note: Oysters are becoming a critical component of South Carolina's defense against climate change. This is the third part of an occasional series from The Post and Courier that will track ...

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, ...

OYSTER OPENING, BUT HOW MUCH DO WE KNOW ABOUT THEM CLOSING ALL THESE BITS OF INFORMATION ARE REALLY HELPFUL. EASTON WHITE IS AN ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES. AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW ...

GULF SHORES, Ala. (WALA) - The Alabama Coastal Foundation celebrated seven years of its oyster shell recycling program Thursday and they did it with a multi-million-dollar grant. “I’m glad to announce ...

Oyster shells are not garbage. That is the message from conservation groups, which say people have been recycling shells along U.S. coastlines for generations. Today's recycling efforts are highly ...