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.

Warmer seas help spread Attempts were made to cultivate Pacific oysters in Sweden as early as the 1970s, but they failed to reproduce, probably because the water was too cold. Pacific oysters need ...

A new lifecycle analysis found that the bivalves bound tons of carbon in their shells and soaked up six-fold more nutrients than they produced.

Environment and genetics The authors of the study crossbred female and male oysters in waters with different salinities, from Baltic Sea salinity (8 parts per thousand) to full marine salinity (33 ...

This farm grows and harvests shellfish from the lagoon, which are sold to directly to consumers and local businesses through a distributor. The species farmed here are Pacific oysters (called ...

As the largest ocean in the world, the Pacific is home to more than 2 million people across 22 countries and 30,000 islands. But with a warming planet and rising sea levels, countless ancestral ...

In British Columbia, warming oceans could benefit the Pacific oyster … provided they are protected in time.

Recycled oyster shells are being dumped into the Gulf of Mexico off the Charlotte County coast to help improve the life of sea creatures.

News Environment Here’s how 724 pounds of shells from the DTLA Oyster Festival are helping the environment Subscribers are entitled to 10 gift sharing articles each month.