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‘I feel obligated to protect them’: A lifelong love affair with Guinea-Bissau’s turtles

Ricci Shryock 11 Jan 2022

‘Tis the season’ for cold-stunned sea turtles — and their rescue — on Cape Cod

Elizabeth Devitt 6 Dec 2021

Galápagos census looks at impacts on turtles during and after COVID lockdown

Michelle Carrere 29 Nov 2021

Technology and tradition team up to watch over a sacred island’s sea turtles

Ricci Shryock 19 Nov 2021

People want to do right by nature. They just need a nudge, study shows

Mongabay.com 2 Oct 2021

Sea turtles: Can these great marine migrators navigate rising human threats?

Elizabeth Devitt 20 Sep 2021

Saving sea turtles in the ‘Anthropause’: Successes and challenges on the beach

Elizabeth Fitt 15 Sep 2021

In Sri Lanka, biologists and divers build a Facebook for sea turtles

Malaka Rodrigo 13 Aug 2021
A dugong (Dugong dugong) feeding on seagrass in Egypt. Image by Julien Willem via Creative Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Seagrass-grazing dugongs and green sea turtles supercharge the seeds they eat

Carolyn Cowan 11 Aug 2021

For Atlantic sea turtles, Sargasso Sea is home during the ‘lost years’

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 19 May 2021

As the rest of world tackles plastics disposal, the U.S. resists

Charles Pekow 17 May 2021

Time is running out for embattled Pacific leatherback sea turtles

Marlowe Starling 30 Apr 2021

Sea turtles under threat as Indian government weighs development in Andaman Islands

Rosamma Thomas 14 Apr 2021

From penguins to sharks to whales, swimming in circles is a surprisingly common trait

Basten Gokkon 26 Mar 2021

Turtle conservation hits the SPOT in North Cyprus

James Fair 24 Mar 2021
Coral reef in at Raja Ampat, Indonesia. Photo by Beth Watson / Ocean Image Bank.

Top positive environmental stories from 2020

Liz Kimbrough 30 Dec 2020
Newly hatched olive ridley sea turtle in Costa Rica. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

The turtle egg that pinged back: Tracing a poaching pathway in Costa Rica

Claudia Geib 22 Oct 2020

Lots of suspects but few leads in mystery sea turtle deaths in Sri Lanka

Malaka Rodrigo 14 Oct 2020

Sea turtles often lose their way, but always reach their destination

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Jul 2020

As COVID-19 curbs patrols in Nicaragua, turtle eggs risk being poached

Monica Pelliccia 13 Jul 2020

Turtles and tortoises in trouble: More than half of all species face extinction

Liz Kimbrough 8 Jul 2020

An armada of turtles, caught on drone cam, flocks to the Great Barrier Reef

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 12 Jun 2020

Slow and steady: Sea turtles mount a long-term recovery

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 22 May 2020

A Philippine village on lockdown delivers nearly 300 turtle hatchlings to sea

Erwin M. Mascariñas 15 May 2020

Decade after BP Deepwater Horizon spill, oil drilling is as dangerous as ever

Liz Kimbrough 20 Apr 2020

‘Titanic challenge’ for an Italian hospital rescuing sea turtles from plastic

Mongabay.com 2 Apr 2020

For nesting hawksbill turtles, this Philippine community is a sanctuary

Erwin M. Mascariñas 31 Mar 2020

Seychelles extends protection to marine area twice the size of Great Britain

Malavika Vyawahare 30 Mar 2020

Study finds that sea turtles might be eating plastic because it smells like food

Mongabay.com 18 Mar 2020

Coronavirus outbreak may spur Southeast Asian action on wildlife trafficking

Imelda Abano 4 Mar 2020

Philippine coastal town leads war against plastic trash in Mindanao

Bong S. Sarmiento 19 Dec 2019

Sea turtles continue to swim in troubled waters: report

Elham Shirin 19 Dec 2019

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