The number of North Atlantic right whales has dropped to a 20-year low and the calving grounds off the coasts of Georgia and two adjoining states aren’t hosting enough births to outpace deaths, new reports confirm.
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Reporter’s Notebook: DeKalb County Schools launch Mobile Learning Hub
Do you have a bike sitting in storage, collecting dust? Well, it’s time to bust it out because October is here, marking the start of “Biketober.” The month-long event encourages Atlantans to ditch their four-wheeled gas guzzlers in favor of healthier, more eco-friendly transportation. Participants that register and track their rides have the chance to […]
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Cumberland Island: Preservation becomes personal
At some point, environmental issues can become personal. That’s become the case at Cumberland Island, where Karen Grainey has declared her opposition to a dock that her allies think could be a precursor for a 10-house subdivision on the nationally protected island.
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Feds raise protections for North Atlantic right whales, but sea turtles may suffer
North Atlantic right whales have gained protections and sea turtles are more imperiled under a new federal calendar for harbor dredging that came to light May 14 in a federal lawsuit that seeks to protect sea turtles.
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‘Choked, Strangled, Drowned’ – Groundbreaking report on plastics harming sea life
A stunning new report from Oceana compiles all the known harms done by plastic to sea mammals and turtles in U.S. waters since 2009. Georgia’s Department of Natural Resources contributed to findings that were released Thursday.
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St. Simons to sea turtles: ‘We’ll be here. Waiting. (For as long as it takes)’
Sea turtles and the volunteers who count their nests share the limelight in the 2020 nesting season in what was the Summer of Pandemic. This includes even the group at St. Simons, which counted just three nests.
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Sea turtle nests at second-highest level in nine years at end of May, state reports
Sea turtles are nesting in near-record numbers along Georgia’s coast this season, continuing a trend that started about a decade ago as the sizable creatures stage a comeback.
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Reports of Georgia’s first sea turtle nest of 2020 spreads far, wide as ‘good news’ story
The annual story about sea turtles starting their nesting season along Georgia’s coast has been picked up fairly widely and presented as a “good news story” this year as the nation looks to nature for a sense of rhythm in arrhythmic times.
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Sea turtle nesting on Georgia’s coast off last year’s pace
As the sea turtle nesting season winds down along Georgia’s coast, the number of nests appears to have dropped by about 21 percent compared to this time last year, according to preliminary data compiled by seaturtle.org.
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Sea turtle nests spotted this week; officials predict another good year for hatchlings
Sea turtles have begun their annual arrival on the coast of Georgia and South Carolina. Georgia officials don’t expect a repeat of the record number of loggerheads recorded in 2016, but still expect a higher-than-average number.
