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 ...

Recycling oyster shells from restaurants not only provides reef habitat for new oysters and other fish, but it also benefits the marine economy and enables the mollusks to improve the environment by ...

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 ...

Unzueta Martina devised a kind of catheter, installing a watertight port to allow one-way access through which she could sample the microbe-filled fluid in the oyster. Research from Harvard’s ...