Tag: Turtles - Page 4
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Iguana Showers and Frozen Sea Turtle Rescue in Frigid Florida
The severe weather hitting the South has sent a cold snap to the Sunshine State, leaving iguanas paralyzed and falling out
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Readers, Send Us Photos of Your Rescue Animal!
Have you adopted one of the six to eight million cats or dogs that enter animal shelters each year? Is your best friend a former greyhound or Thoroughbred horse racing champion?
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'Unsung' Species Stressed by Climate Change Too
Whether because or spite of once being unknowingly served some incredibly un-tasty (chewy, gamy) musk ox meat at a homestead in
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What Happens to Cold Blooded Animals in a Warming World (Slideshow)
The European Green Lizard, Lacerta viridis, shows off a blue head while catching some rays. Lizards and other so-called "cold-blooded" animals have complex biochemistry: sometimes they have 4 to 10 different enzyme systems where humans would use only
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What Happens to Cold Blooded Animals in a Warming World
The European Green Lizard, Lacerta viridis, shows off a blue head while catching some rays. Lizards and other so-called "cold-blooded" animals have complex biochemistry: sometimes they have 4 to 10 different enzyme systems where humans would use only 1. C
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Beyond Cancun: Discovering a Deeper Green Get-Away at CESiaK
Photo credit: Jessica Root Editor's Note (1.29.2010): Though still in support of its mission, due to a very unprofessional act on the part of CESiak's reservation office, my deep enthusiasm has been tremendously hampered. I will never go there again as
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Moonlight Walks on the Beach Can Be Perilous (For Sea Turtles, That Is)
A loggerhead turtle in an aquarium. Photo by ukanda via Flickr. Australia isn't the only place experiencing an outbreak of the "awwww"s as awkwardly adorable baby sea turtles start to hatch and make their way to the sea. Beaches around the Turkish city
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4,000 Baby Loggerhead Sea Turtles Get a Helping Hand Out to Sea
One of the most dangerous parts of a sea turtle's life is getting from the nest where it hatched out into the open ocean. The event is even more worrisome when you're an endangered species, such as is the case
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7 Endangered Animals Cute Enough for Celebrities to Save
While we think that all endangered species are worth saving, the more looks-centered Hollywood crowd tends to throw its support behind the ones that are cute enough (think fluffy adorable polar bear cubs) to hold their own on
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Gadget for Fishing Nets Could Save Sea Turtles, or Could Be Useless Junk
Sea turtles have a far higher chance of surviving being caught in fishing nets if those fishing nets are pulled up within 50 minutes. A 7-inch long silver cylinder attached to fishing nets that gauges how long the net
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Author Edward Humes on the Rise of the Eco Barons (Part Two)
In the second part of our interview with the author of Eco Barons we learn about the redneck hippy-chick millionaire who started Burt's Bees, and explore the inner workings of Ted Turner (the largest individual landowner in the U.S.). We also hear
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Author Edward Humes on the Rise of the Eco Barons (Part One)
In the latest book from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edward Humes we meet an eccentric cast of "eco barons," the moniker Humes has given to the new breed of maverick pro-planet crusaders. The troupe includes unsung and under-the-radar eco barons
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The "Extinction Sucks" series and Other Ecological Films
Two Australian friends throw a "Missing Horn" funk night at the local pub to drum up funds for anti-poaching teams in Nepal saving the one-horned rhino. Ashleigh Young and Aleisha Caruso
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Think Mom's the Best? Share Her With a Sea Turtle
"My Dear Mother, I felt that this sea turtle also needed a mother as extraordinary as you, so I have adopted him in your name. From now on, he will
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Pearl Jam, R.E.M. and U.S. Olympic Swimming Champs Line Up at Sea Turtle Race Finish Line
Screengrab of Interactive Map of the Great Turtle Race Conservation International has started up this year's Great Turtle Race. Eleven Leatherback sea turtles are pitted against each other in a "race." The turtles are on their migratory journey and the
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One-Flippered Green Sea Turtle Gets A New Wetsuit
We just talked about the awful statistic that 1/3 of Leatherback turtles have plastic in their digestive systems. Man-made materials like that have generally been the bane of
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Sick Turtle Checks Self Into Hospital
A 73-pound loggerhead turtle materialized in the waters near the Turtle Hospital in Marathon, Florida on March 29. Loggerhead turtles are not common in the harbor. When hospital personnel first spied the turtle, they
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US Turtles Being Unsustainably Harvested for Asian Cuisine
The Center for Biological Diversity in Tucson, Arizona has sent out a warning about the unsustainable harvesting of American turtles to feed Asian diners. They're urging several mid-western and southern states to
