Drones offer more efficient way to survey vital oyster reefs

Skimming 100 feet above the Gulf waters at 13 miles per hour and blasting out 700,000 laser pulses every second, a drone flies over this oyster reef off the Big Bend coast of western Florida in early 2021. A few minutes later, ...

Citizen scientists tend oyster gardens

Australia's first "oyster gardening" project has shown the practice benefits the environment and could be an easy way for citizen scientists to improve marine environments.

Can hybrid reefs defend the coasts?

The U.S. military has an idea to save its seaside bases from some of their most relentless foes: flooding, erosion and storm surge.

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Oyster

The word oyster is used as a common name for a number of distinct groups of bivalve molluscs which live in marine or brackish habitats. The valves are highly calcified.

Some kinds of oyster are commonly consumed, cooked or raw, by humans. Other kinds, such as pearl oysters, are not. These are considered an aphrodisiac.

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