Sea turtle nesting season has begun and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) is reminding residents and visitors how they can help protect vulnerable nesting and hatchling sea ...

Leatherback turtles are expected to have another high nesting season, setting a record for the earliest nest recorded in Florida on Feb. 16. While sea turtle population numbers seem to be steadying as ...

OAK ISLAND, N.C. (WECT) - With the return of summer comes not only beach days, but the return of the sea turtle nesting season. Just this week alone, there have been three alleged sea turtle nest ...

Sea turtles that have nested on the same stretches of sand for thousands of years are running out of room. As ocean levels ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sea turtles return to the same nesting sites year after year to grow their populations, but rising global temperatures have ...

Climate change is coming for sea turtles and their critical breeding grounds throughout the Americas and Australia. In a new study in Scientific Reports, researchers report that rapid sea level rising ...

From the 1800s through the 1950s, people clamored for the delicacy green turtle soup. Though the color describes the hue of the soup, one turtle commonly used for the dish – the Chelonia mydas – has ...

A Treasure Coast beach that's badly eroded is getting new sand, but the project coincides with sea turtle nesting season.

Crews are working 24-7 with bulldozers, dump trucks and bright lights on portable towers during sea turtle nesting season.

On a warm morning in Virginia, a wildlife researcher walks slowly through a patchwork of forest and farmland, eyes scanning ...