The green turtle is the most common sea turtle species ... She said a team will patrol the beaches every night to protect the ...

Two leatherback sea turtle nests were discovered Tuesday night, ahead of the official start ... leatherback, and green—for ...

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 ...

Leatherback and green sea turtles also nest the ... visitors to refrain from using flashlights at night, as they can scare away the female turtle as it’s trying to lay the eggs and disorient ...

Record breaking green turtle nesting in Florida means more juvenile turtles in the nearshore and inshore waters of the southeastern US states. "It is not uncommon to have increased numbers of ...

Although indigenous peoples have utilized green turtles—the “edible turtle”—for thousands of years, the harvest of adult green turtles increased greatly with the European conquest of the New World.

Sea-level rise, plastic pollution and global warming threaten green sea turtle habitat. Today’s agreement, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, requires proposed protections by ...