SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - The City of Venice has nearly finished replacing the seawall along a critical hurricane evacuation ...

A conservation team unloads biodegradable wave breaks from a boat on May 27, 2025. The cement jute wave breaks designed for ...

Brevard County's seawalls claim most of the vital fish habitat along the Indian River Lagoon: ... sand and other structural organic materials such as oyster reefs or biologs ...

To give new life to shoreline habitats, a growing number of projects are harnessing the reef-building power of oysters.

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 ...

Three city-owned seawalls and 12 revetments — structures that protect against erosion and water damage — were inspected in Morro Bay to assess the conditions needed for repairs.

In 2021, The Nature Conservancy and Hong Kong University team began work on a reef along a seawall protecting the newly built third runway, using concrete rubble and oyster shells collected from ...

Along with their reefs providing habitat for a host of other species, oysters also are vital to improving coastal water quality. Each oyster can pump up to 50 gallons of water through its body ...

Today hundreds of human-tended oyster reefs, particularly on America’s Atlantic coast, use these principles to protect the shore. They take diverse approaches; some look much like natural reefs ...

The Billion Oyster Project, a local environmental organization, announced the construction of a new oyster reef in Paerdegat Basin, a channel near the Canarsie shoreline that connects to Jamaica Bay.

Also unlike a seawall, an oyster wall can grow. ... Today hundreds of human-tended oyster reefs, particularly on America’s Atlantic coast, use these principles to protect the shore.

Reflecting this trend, the Indian River Lagoon has lost about 63% of its oyster reef acreage since 1943, according to Linda Walters, a marine biology professor at the University of Central Florida.