Enter solar-powered light buoys. A team from Arizona State University recently worked with coastal gillnet fishers in Mexico to develop lights that charge with the sun and function like buoys. The LED ...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Conservationists and students cheered as three rescued sea turtles, endangered in this part of the world, made their way back into the ocean at a private beach in Nigeria's ...

Studies have shown that lighted nets can reduce bycatch of sea turtles and sharks, but the idea has faced many hurdles to adoption. The batteries are short-lived, expensive to replace and raise ...

Staff from Local Ocean Conservation and fishermen lifting a mature Loggerhead sea turtle into a car, after the turtle was hooked out on the open water. [AFP] A small charity on the Kenyan coast has ...

A succession of sea turtles that washed up on New Jersey and Delaware beaches in the last week may have been trapped by fishing nets. Robert Schoelkopf, executive director of Brigantine's Marine ...

In Sri Lankan waters, there’s a growing problem of ghost nets that are entangling sea turtles, fish, dolphins and seabirds, reports contributor Malaka Rodrigo for Mongabay. “Ghost nets” are fishing ...

Nesting habitats are declining and fewer sea turtles are arriving along Kerala, Karnataka, and parts of India’s eastern coast ...