LAGOS (Reuters) -Plastic pollution, discarded fishing nets and coastal development are taking a heavy toll on Nigeria's sea turtles, say conservationists battling to save them. "We're seeing a drastic ...

The ocean is awash with plastic— more than 171 trillion pieces, scientists have estimated, and growing all the time. Animals ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ST. LUCIE COUNTY — As plans to build a Buc-ee’s in Fort Pierce work their way through the approval process, there is a lot to ...

A study points to the risk of fragments remaining in the geological cycle. Laboratory analyses mainly identified polyethylene ...

Researchers at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School have developed a method to read the chemical layers inside sea turtle shells like a biological stopwatch, reconstructing years of an animal’s ...

Even the most remote regions of the globe are not free from plastic pollution. In a study published in Marine Pollution Bulletin, researchers from São Paulo State University (UNESP) in Brazil have ...

A marine biologist who has spent decades studying sea turtles in Costa Rica will speak at the Brunswick County Community Day ...

Staff from Local Ocean Conservation and fishermen lifting a mature Loggerhead sea turtle into a car, after the turtle was hooked out on the open water. [AFP] A small charity on the Kenyan coast has ...

As recently as August 2024, researchers in Greece documented the non-native Chinese stripe‑necked turtle (Mauremys sinensis) on the island of Lesbos during fieldwork, finding three adults co-occurring ...

Decades of armed conflict in the Persian Gulf have left a toxic legacy in the region’s shallow waters, where oil from wartime spills continues to leach from contaminated sediments and threaten dugongs ...

Buc-ee's has been working on a St. Lucie County location since 2023. The 100-foot sign and other light pollution may affect sea turtle nesting on Fort Pierce beaches. It would be the first Buc-ee's on ...