In Georgia, oyster reef restoration typically relies on natural recruitment. The process involves putting shell or other material into tidal water and waiting for tiny oysters to settle there.

Although harmless for human consumption, parasitic disease can cut harvests for coastal shrimpers.

Coastal regions can brace for more intense, wetter and windier tropical storms in a warming world.

COVID-19 hospitalizations at coastal hospitals have matched or surpassed their prior peaks and are expected to keep climbing. Most patients are unvaccinated.

A brief recording of gopher tortoise “vocalizations” was shared online this week by Georgia’s Coastal Ecology Lab, which has been spying on tortoises in the Coastal Plain and recording their activities.

This beach water sampling and testing is managed by the DNR’s Coastal Resources Division, which in May received a $277,000 grant from the federal Environmental Protection Agency to fund this public health and safety initiative.

Sea turtle nesting is below recent, record-breaking years but experts say it's not cause for concern.

Scientists film a fish killing and eating a seaside sparrow’s hatchlings, an example of how climate change is upending ecosystems.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) has been visiting Georgia, pushing for a joint effort on climate change.

Conservation groups have purchased a swath of land that they describe as one of the largest unprotected open space parcels along the southeast Atlantic...

The Georgia Department of Natural Resources is considering changes to the rules governing shark fishing. Two deepwater species of sharks, the Ocean...

UPDATE 6:22 p.m.: The fourth crew member has been rescued from the capsized vessel in St. Simons Sound, meaning all the crew members are accounted for.

For the last 31 years, sharks have been subject to a week of media frenzy, taking place each July. But, throughout the year, they face a number of...

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms is headed to Washington D.C. Wednesday to testify in front of a Senate committee about the city’s plans for climate...

Georgia was once a leader in the oyster canning business, but the last cannery closed in the 1960s. In decades since, the local bivalves had a...