Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dianne Plummer is an Energy Consultant and Certified Energy Manager. Climate change is altering the very biology of turtles, with ...

Many people use the words turtle and tortoise interchangeably, often assuming they represent the same kind of animal with minor variations in size or behaviour. This confusion continues even as ...

Sea turtles lay their eggs into the beach sand. Many return to the exact beaches that they were hatched to lay the eggs for the next generation of turtles. But sea level rise due to climate change ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The Vallarta mud turtle, the world’s smallest turtle, lives only in temporary lagoons in the Mexican city of Puerto Vallarta, which poses a huge ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Conservationists are working to restore the habitats of bog turtles and other species destroyed by the fury of North Carolina's ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. More than half of the world’s 359 turtle and tortoise species now face extinction, with the crisis worsening despite global conservation efforts.

Eastern box turtles are declining due to slow reproduction, habitat fragmentation, road mortality, and agricultural hazards. Researchers track turtles using radio telemetry and GPS loggers to map ...

These teensy tiny turtles of Appalachia barely survived a biblical flood. Inside the effort to build them a new home. Conservationists are working to restore the habitats of bog turtles and other ...