This Air-Breathing Swamp Eel Is Quietly Taking Over the Florida Everglades

Asian swamp eels are spreading through the Everglades and decimating crayfish populations, leading to comparisons with ...

Cash for pythons: Program celebrates another productive month

South Florida Water Management District is in its second year of managing a Python Removal Program. Winners win cash prizes.
OKC Thunder Wire

Florida python hunters rake in cash for eliminating invasive snakes

The South Florida Water Management District is in its second year of managing a Python Removal Program. Winners win cash ...
Corpus Christi Caller-Times

Padre Island National Seashore cuts some sea turtle program volunteers

Padre Island National Seashore is reducing volunteer patrols for the upcoming Kemp's ridley sea turtle nesting season. Volunteers and community members have expressed concern that fewer nests will be ...
GitHub

Post Idea: Implementing Python’s turtle using Pyodide Without Compromising Semantics

This post presents a deep dive into a browser-based implementation of Python’s turtle module that achieves full semantic parity with CPython. Using the CodeScapes platform as a concrete case study, it ...
CSR Wire

Holiday Lights and Community Programs: PSEG Supports the Essex County Turtle Back Zoo

For more than 30 years, we’ve been a proud supporter of Essex County Turtle Back Zoo. This year, our employees and their families rolled up their sleeves for the annual Turtle Back Zoo Day of Service, ...
AOL

The Turtle Facing Critical Endangerment and How You Can Help

As recently as August 2024, researchers in Greece documented the non-native Chinese stripe‑necked turtle (Mauremys sinensis) on the island of Lesbos during fieldwork, finding three adults co-occurring ...
Tampa Bay Times

Tampa’s sea turtle hospital, pushed to the limit, fights to save a record number of rescues

Frigid seas trap turtles in deadly waters — and put Florida veterinarians on the front line of a climate emergency. Frigid seas trap turtles in deadly waters — and put Florida veterinarians on the ...
Tampa Bay Times

10 ways Floridians can help protect sea turtles and their habitat

From sandcastles to sunscreen, how you can make small changes to help sea turtles. Freed from its nest, a tiny three-day-old loggerhead sea turtle hatchling makes for the open gulf in 2014. Lane ...
News 6 WKMG

Sea turtle rehab center cares for storm-stranded hatchlings, giving them a second chance

MELBOURNE, Fla. – Last week, rough waves and heavy winds pushed dense sargassum seaweed onto Florida beaches, trapping hundreds of sea turtle hatchlings. [WATCH: Heavy Winds and rough seas push ...
The St. Augustine Record

Adopt and name a washback hatchling from St. Augustine's at Whitney Lab

The Sea Turtle Hospital at the UF Whitney Laboratory in St. Augustine is launching its Adopt a Washback Sea Turtle program this month. The program runs Oct. 21-31. Those symbolically adopting one of ...
Post and Courier

Sea turtle nesting season is winding down in SC. Did winter snowfall impact some sites?

BEAUFORT — While there are still little sea turtles patiently waiting in their eggs for the signal to emerge from the sand and dash for the waves, the nesting season for mother turtles has drawn to a ...