Thomas Downing — a freeman born to formerly enslaved people in Virginia — became one of the city’s wealthiest citizens as the ...

Participating restaurants and bars are offering special oyster dishes, both raw and cooked, and have agreed to contribute the shells to the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana's oyster shell ...

For Super Bowl LIX, the NFL environmental program has tailored projects to address the unique needs of Louisiana, a region ...

The illness first makes itself known when the abductor muscle, which holds the two parts of the oyster shell together, turns a reddish-brown. Ultimately, eight out of ten affected oysters die from ...

Hundreds of cages filled with recycled oyster shells fill the harbor. Each shell grows multiple baby oysters; some are currently under ice. 33-year-old American living in Germany: ‘I don’t worry about ...

The opportunity to recycle 45,000 pounds of oyster shell does not go unnoticed by the Coastal Conservation Association (CCA), which will enlist an army of 150 volunteers to work from 10 a.m. to 5 ...

But one organization is stepping up to get the oyster shells from your plate back into ... for the waters we love to enjoy here as well.” American Idol finalist from McIntosh now married with ...

MOUNT PLEASANT — Steaming shells and fresh seafood are only the ... This year's Lowcountry Oyster Festival is looking to uphold those traditions from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Feb. 2 at Boone Hall ...

Pearls are made by marine oysters and freshwater mussels as a natural defence against an irritant such as a parasite entering their shell or damage to their fragile body. The oyster or mussel slowly ...

An ambitious project launched by an NGO called The Nature Conservancy aims to recover hundreds of oyster shells in order to help restore oyster reefs around Hong Kong Bay and elsewhere in the world.