The world’s oyster reefs could add $12 trillion to planetary health each year—if they were better managed

October 7, 2026 · 4:00 am 1 sources

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• The world's oyster reefs could add $12 trillion to planetary health each year—if they were better managed
  Phys.org · October 7, 2026 04:00
  A new study shows that the world's oyster reefs are a precious resource that's vastly underestimated and underutilized. The authors set out to calculate the reefs' potential gross ecosystem product (GEP), the ecological counterpart of the gross economic product, and arrived at trillions of dollars…