© Oceana/Carlos Suarez We're celebrating a big win yesterday for loggerhead sea turtles. In response to two petitions submitted in 2007 by Oceana, the Center for Biological Diversity and the Turtle Island Restoration Network, yest...

Environmental groups are pressing the National Marine Fisheries Service and the Fish and Wildlife Service to increase protections for the endangered loggerhead sea turtle, which has plied the world’s oceans for some 200 million year...

Loggerhead turtles are among the species threatened by the oil slick. Photo: Damien du Toit via flickr. Reuters reports that a leaking Australian offshore oil well will continue to spill oil into the Timor Sea for nearly two month...

As I mentioned Monday, the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council took a final step last week towards protecting loggerhead sea turtles from bottom longlines. The council's ruling will save hundreds of sea turtles each year. And...

As I mentioned Monday, the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council took a final step last week towards protecting loggerhead sea turtles from bottom longlines. And yesterday the New York Times described how the ruling was the resu...

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 a...

Image via brian.gratwicke 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...

Editor's note: This is the last in a series of six posts from Emily and Kerri Lynn's trip to North Carolina to watch loggerhead sea turtles nesting. The most recent post was about a full loggerhead nesting. After witnessing our firs...

Editor's note: This is the fourth in a series of posts from Emily and Kerri Lynn's trip to North Carolina to watch loggerhead sea turtles nesting this week. You may have noticed the lack of update yesterday – we were on the beach du...

Editor's Note: This is the third in a series of blog posts chronicling Emily and Kerri Lynn's trip to North Carolina to find nesting loggerhead sea turtles. Read yesterday's update here. I could leave you in suspense about what happ...

Editor's note: This is the second of a series of articles about Emily and Kerri Lynn's week-long trip to North Carolina in hopes of witnessing loggerhead sea turtles nesting. Read more »...

Editor's note: This is the first of a series of articles about Emily and Kerri Lynn's week-long trip to North Carolina in hopes of witnessing loggerhead sea turtles nesting. Check out last year's trip to see sea turtles hatching. St...

By Beth Daley, Globe Staff Nine juvenile sea turtles were spared a long, tiring swim from Cape Cod to the warm waters off Georgia last week by being driven there. Dr. Terry Norton escorted Bruce, a loggerhead turtle, to the...

A few months back I told you how longlines in the Gulf of Mexico were catching an alarming amount of loggerhead sea turtles. Oceana's Campaign to Protect Sea Turtles has been on the case, and I'm pleased to say that some progress ha...

A few months back I told you how longlines in the Gulf of Mexico were catching an alarming amount of loggerhead sea turtles. Oceana's Campaign to Protect Sea Turtles has been on the case, and I'm pleased to say that some progress ha...

As we reported back in October, bottom longlines in the Gulf reef fish fishery killed nearly 1,000 threatened loggerhead sea turtles in just 18 months -- that's eight times the federally authorized capture level for the entire fishe...

Researchers have shown that the salinity of sea water could act as a "barrier", preventing the turtles from moving between the areas of the Western Mediterranean. This is why loggerhead turtles from the south and north of the Wester...

The St. Petersburg Times reports that longlines are catching endangered loggerhead sea turtles at an alarming rate. Dave Allison, senior campaign director for our sea turtle campaign, is quoted in the article: "The newly available ...

Sea turtle lovers, you might want to sit down for this. This week, a study found that nearly 3,000 endangered Pacific loggerhead sea turtles were found dead along a 27-mile stretch of Baja California, Mexico's coast during a five-ye...

Along the southern coast of Baja California, Mexico, scientists have been counting the carcasses of endangered sea turtles for a decade as part of an effort to assess and eliminate threats to loggerhead sea turtle populations. Their...