The conveyor belt of volunteers stands in ankle-deep water, passing mesh bags full of emptied oyster shells. The regulars ...

Planning is underway to select locations for up to six restored oyster reefs in bays of the Mission-Aransas Estuary. Project partners are currently considering public feedback, including insights ...

BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (WLOX) - A special recycling initiative is helping to bring new life to an oyster reef in South Mississippi. Mississippi Power and Beau Rivage volunteers teamed up with the Nature ...

On a hot Friday morning, the sun beat down on volunteers gathered at the edge of the water in southern Plaquemines Parish. They passed heavy sacks of oyster shells to each other down a line. “I feel ...

Dozens of high school students and other volunteers spent Friday morning stuffing recycled oyster shells into mesh bags — the first step in a plan to create a "living reef" to fight land loss along ...

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - It’s almost been a year since the Nature Conservancy started the Save Our Shells Oyster Recycling Program. It is part of a mission to recycle oyster shells from restaurants ...

The Town of Hempstead is building two reefs in the western bays off of Lido Beach using seafood shells. Supervisor Laura Gillen says the plan will save the shores from erosion and the bays from ...

GRAND BAYOU, La. (WVUE) - For centuries, the people of Grand Bayou—a remote, boat-accessible village west of the Mississippi River—have called the disappearing coastline of Plaquemines Parish home.