Travel + Leisure on MSN

This 113-mile highway through the Florida Keys is lined with delicious seafood, charming islands, and ocean views

Driving the Overseas Highway from Key Largo to Key West, I let reef dives, seafood shacks, and impossibly blue water set the ...
Islands on MSN

Maryland's 5 best-kept secret islands that feel like a quaint paradise according to the internet

From year-round farmers markets to car-free roads, we've scoured the internet to bring you Maryland island paradises that ...
The New York Times

Stampeding Turtles Might Have Made Fossil Tracks in Italian Cliffs

Researchers suggest that an earthquake spooked a mob of sea turtles gathered together in a prehistoric sea. By Carolyn Wilke Rocky cliffs run into the Adriatic Sea near Ancona, Italy. There, above the ...
WRAL

Founding director of local sea turtle rehabilitation center dies at 90

The founder of an impactful sea turtle rehabilitation center in North Carolina passed away early Tuesday morning. The Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center (KBSTRRC) shared on ...
People

Sea Turtle Weighed Down by a 10-Lb. Life-Threatening Tumor Returns to the Ocean After Her Rescue

The loggerhead turtle named Molly underwent a three-hour-long operation to remove her massive neck tumor Courtesy of The Turtle Hospital In August, fishermen found a loggerhead sea turtle with a ...
The Boston Globe

At dawn, they rescue stranded sea turtles on Cape Cod

TRURO - The sea turtle rescue begins before dawn, right after high tide. Mass Audubon Turtle Patrol volunteers scour the beaches, guided by flashlights to make sure they don’t miss a cold-stunned ...
Wicked Local

Mass Audubon leads rescue efforts for cold-stunned sea turtles on Cape beaches

The first cold-stunned sea turtle of the 2025 stranding season was rescued as the season begins, according to a Nov. 10 community announcement. Mass Audubon, the largest nature-based organization in ...
Phys.org

Drones map loggerhead sea turtle nesting site hotspots

Florida's beaches—particularly those in Palm Beach County—are among the world's most vital nesting grounds for loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta), accounting for 90% of all loggerhead nests in ...
Los Angeles Times

Why Hawaii’s green sea turtles remain protected despite population recovery

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 ...
Tampa Bay Times

10 ways Floridians can help protect sea turtles and their habitat

From sandcastles to sunscreen, how you can make small changes to help sea turtles. Freed from its nest, a tiny three-day-old loggerhead sea turtle hatchling makes for the open gulf in 2014. Lane ...
WPBF

Rehabilitated sea turtle, The Real Swim Shady, returns back to the ocean at Juno Beach

COMPETITION. WELL, SO FAR THIS YEAR, LOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER HAS REHABILITATED AND RELEASED 97 JUVENILES TO ADULT SEA TURTLES, AND MORE THAN A THOUSAND AND 183 HATCHLINGS AND WASH BACKS. FIRST ...
People

Green Sea Turtles Are No Longer Endangered Thanks to Decades of Conservation, Experts Announce

The global population of green turtles has increased approximately 28% since the 1970s, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature Getty Green sea turtles are no longer endangered ...