The Earth Times

How Climate Change Is Rewriting Turtle Sex Ratios: The Heat Behind a Biological Shift

Climate change is skewing turtle populations by altering hatchling sex ratios. Explore how temperature affects turtles, why ...
AOL

Rising Temperatures Cause Florida Sea Turtles to Be Born Female

The climate crisis’ impact on sandy beaches affects more than just rising sea levels and how much sunscreen we apply. It’s also contributing to an upswing in the number of turtles that are born female ...
The Atlantic

What About the Female Turtle? Remembering Venus de Milo, TMNT’s Lost Member

As Michael Bay’s new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles adaptation gets set to hit theaters – only seven years after the last such film – audiences are left gawking at the rather monstrous new forms for the ...
Daily Hampshire Gazette

Speaking of Nature: Pressure is on for the spotted turtle: Now is the point in the turtle life cycle when female turtles are most vulnerable

The spotted turtle is a very rare turtle in Massachusetts, but it is impossible to mistake for any other species. Credit: PHOTO BY BILL DANIELSON The story of this spring has been the weather; ...
La Crosse Tribune

Another reason to brake for turtles: Climate change is making more turtles female

Each year, when spring gives way to summer, female turtles leave the river to lay their eggs. It’s such a predictable event that La Crosse County is known as a hot spot for turtle crossings, turtle ...
abcnews4

Volunteers aid adventurous loggerhead turtle as hatchling season kicks off on Folly Beach

FOLLY BEACH, S.C. (WCIV) — Sea Turtle hatchling season is here and volunteers with the Folly Beach Turtle Watch Program were able to track two separate nests hatch and a female loggerhead turtle lay a ...