Tybee Island Maritime Academy students teamed up with local organizations to bag oyster shells, learning about their environmental benefits and aiding shoreline restoration. Tybee Island Maritime ...

Even their shells are useful, both in and out of the water. They're used to help start a new reef, or make a home for another animal. Finely crushed oyster shells are given to chickens to help ...

(Credit: Charity Robey)) Seafood connoisseurs consume oysters throughout most of the year across Long Island, often haphazardly discarding the empty shells slurp after slurp. But local advocates say ...

Living shorelines that include oyster shell reefs are a natural approach to protecting them from erosion, and healthy oyster reefs can also help protect the habitats that capture and store carbon.

MOUNT PLEASANT — Steaming shells and fresh seafood are only the ... This year's Lowcountry Oyster Festival is looking to uphold those traditions from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Feb. 2 at Boone Hall ...

Radigan is with the nonprofit environmental group Tampa Bay Watch. He cranks up the engine on the small skiff, which is loaded with bags of oyster shells. Freezing salt spray heralds our journey from ...

Depoala points out that in Alabama, you can go to fossil deposits and find a 35-million-year-old oyster shell still holding all the carbon that oyster ever sequestered. He understands the enormity ...

Chef shucking a fresh oyster with a knife and mesh oyster glove, Opening the hollow and flat oysters, Man opening the shell of fresh oyster, Fresh oyster held open with an oyster knife in a hand with ...

It’s designed to be carbon neutral, made with recycled materials as well as an oyster shell casing. The material is quite flimsy, but this is easy to look past considering the performance you get.

The shells are dotted with tiny perforations that some unknown marine creature must have made about 517 million years ago. The Cambrian Explosion was a phase in Earth’s history when many animal groups ...