While most sea turtles warm themselves by swimming close to the surface of shallow waters, the Eastern Pacific green turtle will take to land to bask in the sun. Occasionally seen sunbathing ...

Green sea turtles in the Indo-Pacific region — including populations around Southeast Asia, Australia and the Indian Ocean islands — also show distinct physical and behavioral adaptations.

Scientists believe it could signal significant changes ahead for the Pacific Ocean and our own ... more satellite-tracking sea turtles this summer. View a tracking map of the sea turtle study ...

Thousands of seabirds and sea turtles ... Pacific Garbage Patch. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a gyre of plastic debris in the north-central Pacific Ocean. It’s the largest accumulation of ...

Saving loggerhead sea turtles also means ensuring that they have the protections afforded to them under the Endangered Species Act. In response to a Center petition, in 2011 the federal government ...