For many just a tasty delicacy, the oyster may actually be the hero the world needs to fight environmental degradation—and ...

Much has been learned about heat-resistant corals in the last decade. Village by village and beach by beach, reef restoration ...

A new suite of research has found efforts to restore oyster reefs on the U.S. East Coast has knock-on effects benefitting the ...

Eighteen tropical storms developed in the Atlantic basin during the official five-month season, including 11 hurricanes. Two ...

There are more than 1,700 points where sediment from dirt roads end up washing into local waterways. Officials want to craft a plan to fix them.

Rising sea levels are forcing communities up and down the East Coast to adapt. With its meager infrastructure, few are as vulnerable as Hogg Hummock.

The Pensacola and Perdido Bay Estuary Program will use NOAA grant funds to locate the ... the Pensacola Bay System supported abundant oyster reefs and was a sustainable commercial harvesting ...

Anglers rely on NOAA data ... on NOAA’s research. “Fishermen are very reliant on NOAA for a lot of things,” said Eric Brazer, the deputy director of Gulf of America Reef Fish Shareholders ...

Bryce Coates, a USM Gulf Coast Research Summer Field Program student, holds a bag of oyster ... reefs where baby oysters can grow and continue to support other marine life, according to the NOAA.

NOAA is involved in life and research on the Georgia coast in many other ways, too, including management of the Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary and the annual effort to track North Atlantic ...

Colton Contreras, 11, of Fulton Elementary School, dumps oyster shells into a funnel leading to a cotton bag during a Sink Your Shucks event led by the Harte Research Institute at Goose Island ...