An alliance is deploying one billion oysters to restore New York Harbor. New York Harbor was a haven of incredible underwater biodiversity—until centuries of pollution turned it into a cesspool.

The once mighty wild Apalachicola oyster has nearly ... The rock is durable enough to survive underwater, and the oysters seem to like it. “The larger limestone is even more stable, and it ...

This year 80 people put on their waders, grabbed buckets and quadrats (square metal frames), and splashed through the clear ...

Baby oysters have been collected from special cages ready to be moved to an underwater reef The wild oysters project is a partnership between The Zoological Society of London, Blue Marine ...

Wild American oysters, long considered extinct in Midcoast Maine, have returned to the region, according to a recent study. With the help of local shellfish harvesters, researchers from the ...

In decades past, oysters were plentiful and (relatively) cheap — a good combination for bar food. “Historically, Americans would consume a lot of wild oysters, and because they were so ...

Looks like Queens is turning into the oysters’ Rockefeller Center. A stretch of the borough’s shoreline has been identified as the hip new hotspot for the mollusks — marking a powerful ...

October is North Carolina Oyster Month and the start of the local wild oyster season. While farmed oysters are available year-round, wild ones are those that can only be collected when the ...