ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.— In response to a legal agreement with environmental groups, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA Fisheries today proposed to designate roughly 8,850 acres of beaches and ...

If approved, more than 2,000 acres of nesting and basking beaches in Hawaii would be set aside to protect green sea turtles. One of two subadult green turtles raised in captivity at Sea Life Park ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A new proposal aims to protect threatened and endangered sea turtles by preserving their habitat along critical areas of the U.S. coastline. NOAA Fisheries and the U.S. Fish and ...

I’d watched the viral Instagram videos of the sea turtles, I’d read a report monitoring their habitat and I’d even heard from a friend who recently saw the turtles with her own eyes. Still, the first ...

Florida's beaches—particularly those in Palm Beach County—are among the world's most vital nesting grounds for loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta), accounting for 90% of all loggerhead nests in ...

CONEY ISLAND, Brooklyn (WABC) -- The New York Aquarium set an endangered sea turtle free on Wednesday after a successful rehabilitation, with a crowd in Coney Island cheering for the animal's return ...

Turtle populations continue to face unpredictable challenges from climate change, according to a joint study between ...

This undated photo provided by Clearwater Marine Aquarium shows Sparkler, one of three Sea Turtles during rehabilitation at Clearwater Marine Aquarium in Clearwater, Fla. The three sea turtles are ...

Slow and steady wins the race. It’s a sentiment that has shadowed turtles for years, and perhaps, for good reason. Turtles are slow, but wise. Sea turtles, however, are nothing short of amazing. Sea ...