The Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach opens a new rehabilitation tank for rescued green sea turtles. Visitors can now see ...

Last fall, a routine day of rockhounding on Bureau of Land Management–managed public land in southwest Wyoming turned into an ...

Researchers examined the diet and plastic ingestion of green sea turtles inhabiting waters around the Ogasawara Islands, Japan, and detected plastics in 7 of the 10 individuals studied. By integrating ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Dozens of community members gathered Saturday morning at Mustang Island Gulf Beach to witness the Amos Rehabilitation Keep’s first public green sea turtle release of the season ...

It may not be Christmas yet, but visitors to Padre Island National Seashore got an early and extraordinary surprise this week. Around 11 a.m. on Tuesday, beachgoers spotted tiny green sea turtle ...

In 1978, green sea turtles were placed on the endangered species list primarily due to human activities like bycatch in fisheries, habitat loss from coastal development, pollution, commercial hunting ...

BEAUFORT COUNTY, S.C. (WTOC) - Federal prosecutors have charged a man with illegally importing the head of a green sea turtle — a species protected under CITES and the Endangered Species Act. The ...

A 62-year-old Beaufort man has pleaded guilty to illegally importing and purchasing the head of a protected sea turtle species. John Trask III signed a plea agreement Monday in Beaufort’s division of ...

Decades of conservation and beach patrols have boosted green turtle numbers-but recovery is uneven and ongoing threats from storms, erosion, warming sands, poaching and plastics mean sustained ...

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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Hawaii’s green sea turtles have rebounded dramatically, but federal protections still ban Native Hawaiian ...

CHARLESTON — While the work to rehabilitate their population is far from finished, South Carolina’s Green sea turtles just had one heck of a good month. The International Union for Conservation of ...