The Marine Education, Research and Rehabilitation Institute (MERR), a nonprofit marine mammal and sea turtle stranding ...

Balloon ban leader Debbie Swick lauds OBX efforts, still working on statewide bill By Mark Jurkowitz | Outer Banks Voice During a four-month period in 2024, all six Dare County towns enacted bans ...

SeaWorld Orlando is caring for “cold-stunned” sea turtles rescued from Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The goal is to return the ...

Lawmakers are eyeing bills ranging from fixing the state’s waste crisis, further restricting helium balloons and tightening ...

The world's largest indoor beach spans 200 metres at the Tropical Island Resort near Berlin and the temperature stays 26C all ...

Beaufort became the first city in South Carolina to ban outdoor balloon releases. Balloons are a hazard to wildlife.

Green turtles start out their life all the same: buried in sand. Read here to learn how green turtle hatchlings emerge.

Five rescued northern diamondback terrapin hatchlings will spend the winter at the Liberty Science Center. The turtles were rescued from a vulnerable nesting site on Long Beach Island after hatching ...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Two dozen Kemp’s ridley sea turtles are rehabilitating in Florida after the frigid waters off of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, left them struggling with frostbite, pneumonia and ...

MONROE COUNTY, Pa. — The Wilderz at Pocono Wildlife Rehabilitation in Hamilton Township see lots of different animals come through their clinic doors. Several turtles are in their care, recovering ...

Candy wrappers. Balloons. Grocery bags. Every day, the equivalent of 2,000 full garbage trucks worth of plastic gets dumped in the world's oceans. Scientists have long known that plastic waste is ...

Forget the giraffes, gibbons and leopards. About a dozen visitors at the Turtle Back Zoo in New Jersey gathered one recent morning around the most unusual sight of all. It was a small, light-brown ...