Technological advances have made it possible for researchers to track the movements of large ocean-dwelling animals in three dimensions with remarkable precision in both time and space. Researchers reporting in the journal ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 18, 2021
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A small parade of rescued young sea turtles has headed into the Gulf of Mexico from Louisiana—a bright note in a tough season for sea turtles.
Ecology
Mar 17, 2021
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An exquisitely detailed global ocean model simulation from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has given scientists rare insight into where baby sea turtles may go in their "lost years" after they scramble ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 4, 2021
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Sea turtles are witnesses and victims of the high level of plastic pollution of the Adriatic Sea. A group of researchers at the University of Bologna analyzed 45 turtles hospitalized at Fondazione Cetacea in Riccione and ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 25, 2021
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University of Central Florida researchers are homing in on the cause of a major disease of sea turtles, with some of their latest findings implicating saltwater leeches as a possible factor.
Ecology
Feb 18, 2021
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Residents, some of whom lack heat or basic amenities in their own homes due to the unusually chilly weather, have been rescuing cold-stunned sea turtles and taking them to a convention center in a South Texas resort town.
Ecology
Feb 17, 2021
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Millions of tons of plastic waste find their way into the ocean every year. A team of researchers from the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) in Potsdam has investigated the role of regional ocean governance ...
Environment
Feb 11, 2021
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About 60% of the world's turtle species are considered threatened or endangered, making them one of the most vulnerable groups of animals on the planet.
Plants & Animals
Feb 9, 2021
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Toni Capretta stands on a patch of Texas's Gulf coast where just seven months earlier the dunes were nearly her height. Now they are gone.
Environment
Jan 25, 2021
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Newly hatched, dozens of baby turtles flipped and flopped their way down a beach towards the crashing waves of the Indian Ocean, under the watchful gaze of conservationists at an Indonesian national park.
Ecology
Jan 6, 2021
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