CHULA VISTA, Calif. — Coastal communities are using nature to clean the ocean and combat rising sea levels. Their secret weapon: oyster shells. "One of my personal statements is, I joke, I'm trying to ...
Volunteers for the Coalition for Coastal Louisiana stack bags of recycled oyster shells along the shoreline on September 20th, 2024. The reef will grow and and continue protecting the land from ...
Native Olympia oysters. Photo courtesy of Chela Zabin. For much of the year, the oyster reef at Bayview’s Heron’s Head Park is hidden from sight below the waves, or under cover of darkness. But in the ...
Living shorelines are a nature-based approach to coastal protection that uses natural materials like plants, sand, rock and oyster shells to stabilize shorelines and protect them from erosion. Native ...
Six generations ago, Europe's seas possessed vast oyster reefs. Oysters were found in their millions, clustered together in reef systems that spanned hundreds of square kilometers. Now the reefs are ...
Concrete-like “cubes” housing 4,000 oysters have been deployed in the North Sea to protect the species from storms and tidal surges. Marine conservationists from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) ...