Florida beaches are about to get filled with sea turtle eggs as the nesting season starts in March. This is the time female sea turtles come ashore to lay their eggs. Wildlife officials estimate the ...

FLAGLER BEACH — Lori Ottlein likes turtles. She already had a couple of pet turtles, known as cooters, named Sam and Ella, when one day, more than two decades ago, she saw some people on the beach ...

The first loggerhead sea turtle nest of the season was found on April 6 in Juno Beach, marking the second earliest loggerhead nesting recorded since 1983. Researchers at Loggerhead Marinelife Center ...

There are seven species of sea turtle alive today, and they are found in oceans all over the world except the Arctic. Many of them travel thousands of miles between the areas where they forage for ...

KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. (WCBD)—Nest patrollers on Kiawah Island found their first sea turtle nest of the season on Monday. Team Zone Six located the nest of Loggerhead eggs on Monday morning and marked ...

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist's weekly newsletter. In the middle of a steamy July night on the Wassaw Island beach, near Savannah, Georgia, volunteer Gabi Steinbach ...

Powerful waves have destroyed turtle nests as the storm moved up the coast. As Hurricane Erin churned off the North Carolina coast this week, its powerful waves destroyed most of the remaining sea ...

GULF SHORES, Ala. (WKRG) — It’s day one of sea turtle nesting season, which means volunteers with Share the Beach are already on patrol. “We are looking for sea turtle tracks,” Share the Beach ...

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and WABE, Atlanta’s NPR station. In the middle of a steamy July night on the Wassaw Island beach, near Savannah, Georgia, volunteer ...