Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A man who trapped and shipped thousands of freshwater turtles from Georgia to California is headed to prison. Nathan Horton ...

Plastic pollution has become one of the most pressing threats to marine wildlife. It is estimated that more than 700 marine species, from blue whales to small barnacles, have had interactions with ...

Editor's Note: This is the last in a two-part series on turtles. Although turtles usually are not a pest to people, they can sometimes reach numbers where economic damage occurs. There are a variety ...

After 20 years of trying to phase out commercial turtle trapping in Minnesota, lawmakers have banned the practice. Gov. Tim Walz signed legislation May 24 that outlaws commercial turtle trapping ...

More than 100 green sea turtles have been rescued or documented after becoming entangled in sargassum seaweed piling up thicker than usual this summer along the Texas coast. Wildlife responders are ...

Kudos to the Senate Environmental Conservation Committee and Chair Sen. Mark J. Grisanti, R-Buffalo, for holding back a destructive bill to legalize the lethal trapping of our state reptile, the ...