A special recycling initiative is helping to bring new life to an oyster reef in South Mississippi. Mississippi Power and ...

Green Island Cement is turning oyster shells into cement for buildings in Hong Kong. Oyster shells are 91 per cent limestone, which is a key ingredient in cement. Mining limestone usually produces ...

Oysters play a crucial role in the marine ecosystem as they filter water, create habitats and support the nutrient cycle.

A number of entities will work together to create oyster-based living shorelines along more than 8,000 feet of shoreline on ...

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An oyster-shell mound, known as a midden, left by the Timucua in North Florida has shells dating from 600 to 2,500 years ago. Another midden, on the upper Damariscotta River in Maine, contains ...

Drawn to the fierce sound, I pull up on the beach opposite the hotel, clambering past discarded oyster shells from yesterday’s picnics up to a pockmarked, rocky plateau to find it. The waves ...

The Town of Oyster Bay will pause shell fishing for six months on roughly 1,400 acres of underwater land that a private vendor had exclusive access to for the past 30 years. Oyster Bay’s long ...

Every year Ben Pape, 69, of East Islip, makes a point to get his fill of fish at the Oyster Fest and he enjoyed a plate of oysters on the half shell as well as some seared scallops. “This is a ...

as they navigate piles of oyster shells to sit in the shade of a painted-tile art installation created by 59 children from Swansea Primary School. This year marks 40 years of Melshell Oysters ...