Between 2002 and 2015, research divers surveyed coral reefs around 53 islands and atolls in U.S. Pacific waters, tallying up all the turtles they found, reports Maanvi Singh at Science News.

Green sea turtles are not the only organisms threatened by climate change in the Great Barrier Reef. The warming temperatures have also resulted in severe coral bleaching, in which the reefs eject ...

Barraza and his team studied the effects pollution had on the development of these turtles at a long-term monitoring site on Heron Island, which is a small coral sand cay in the southern Great ...

Some green turtles travel thousands of miles across the ocean to reach the popular egg laying spot. The small sandy island lies on top of a coral reef and only measures 79 acres in total. It’s ...

Researchers have captured beautiful aerial footage of thousands of green turtles congregating on the edge of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef during the nesting season. Scientists from Queensland ...

The extraordinary footage, captured in December 2019, provided an estimate of up to 64,000 green turtles around the island, 1.73 times the figure produced by previous estimates, CNN reports.

Researchers tracked green sea turtles by fitting them with GPS tags in the Dry Tortugas National Park. The study, published this week in the journal Biological Conservation, also made use of a ...