In what’s become an annual occurrence, seaweed has begun washing ashore from Miami south to Key West. But a Florida oceanographer says that the potentially harmful impact of this season’s sargassum bloom is likely overstated and that most of the state should dodge a catastrophic effect. Dr. Zack Jud—director of education at the Florida Oceanographic…
Turtle Espionage: Beach Walkers Asked to Help Discover and Protect Nests
January 13, 2023
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Metres away from the Gold Coast’s built-up tourist strips, female turtles are engaging in a secret mission under cover of night to the sand dunes where they can safely lay and bury their eggs. The journey, which happens every two to three years, sees the female turtles emerge from the ocean on warm summer nights up the…
Large Female Sea Turtles Lay More Eggs and Need to Be Protected: Study
April 21, 2022
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The size of female sea turtles has a bearing on population dynamics and therefore they should be protected, a University of Western Australia (UWA) study has found. The finding, published in Global Ecology and Biogeography on April 19, showed that larger females have greater reproductive output, with size a strong predictor of egg quantities, as…
Thousands of ‘Cold-Stunned’ Sea Turtles Off Coast of Texas Rescued, Warmed in Convention Center
The brutal cold snap that has frozen Texas hasn’t only numbed unprepared people to the bone—thousands of turtles have been caught off guard too. Thousands of sea turtles unused to the plunge in temperatures have been washing up on the beaches of South Padre Island, off the southern coast of Texas. Volunteers have brought some…
Artificial Intelligence and Traditional Knowhow Saving Sea Turtle Eggs
February 18, 2021
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Indigenous rangers and scientists utilising Artificial Intelligence (AI) to protect endangered sea turtles along the west coast of Queensland’s Cape York from predators have found that it is playing a vital role in stabilising the ecosystem. CSIRO research scientist Dr Justin Perry, the project leader, is combining cloud and AI technology with traditional knowledge of…
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