A new study finds microplastics in nearly every organ of stranded sea turtles, including their reproductive systems.
In just about a month, hundreds of nesting sea turtles will return to Sanibel and Captiva’s shores to lay their eggs throughout sea turtle nesting season, which in Florida runs from May through ...
For green sea turtles nesting on the beaches ... “Phenological shift mitigates predicted impacts of climate change on sea ...
Sea turtles return to the same nesting sites year after year to grow their populations, but rising global temperatures have disrupted this ancient cycle. New research has found that two sea turtle ...
The green turtle is a large, weighty sea turtle with a wide, smooth carapace, or shell. It inhabits tropical and subtropical coastal waters around the world and has been observed clambering onto ...
Green sea turtles congregate near a dock in the Bahamas ... filling the new holes with future offspring before lumbering back to sea. The humans arrive at dawn. Barefoot men perform an odd ...
University of Manchester scientists have discovered significant concentrations of microplastics in the male reproductive ...
Researchers found that sea turtles in Cyprus are nesting earlier each year to counteract rising temperatures caused by climate change. Loggerhead and green turtles adjust their nesting timing to ...
GALVESTON, Texas — A large group of green sea turtles are back home in the Gulf after a long ordeal that began last fall. The 24 cold-stunned sea turtles were recently released from Stewart ...
More sea turtles than usual have been found stranded or dead in Brevard County, Florida. The increase in strandings, mostly juvenile green sea turtles, is likely due to prolonged exposure to cold ...
Though the sea turtles take abundant precaution in choosing their nesting sites by arriving on beaches during full moon ...
"The Xisha Islands are favored nesting grounds for green turtles. By protecting the beach where they were born, generations of sea turtles will continue to return to lay eggs," he added.