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📰 Leatherbacks Return After Nearly a Decade

🌎 Panama: Critically endangered leatherback sea turtles have returned to nest on the Pacific coast here for the first time since 2017, a conservation milestone.

🐢 Community groups and the Environment Ministry relocated 178 eggs to a protected hatchery to boost survival. Hatchlings expected in September/October! 🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢

🔗 https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2026/08/24/latam-pamama-leatherback-sea-turtles-return/1771787592168/

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📰 Volunteers Help Track Sea Turtle Hatching Success

🌎 Outer Banks, NC: Protecting sea turtles continues after hatchlings reach the ocean. Trained volunteers with N.E.S.T. return to nests about 72 hours after the last hatchling emerges to carefully excavate and study the nest.

🐢🥚 During excavations, volunteers count eggs, eggshells, unhatched eggs, and any remaining hatchlings. This data helps conservationists measure hatching and emergence success and estimate how many hatchlings successfully left the nest.

🔍 The effort can also document rare genetic conditions and verify nest relocation outcomes. Any live hatchlings found are safely released to continue their journey to the sea.

🤝 The information collected helps scientists monitor nesting success and strengthen sea turtle conservation efforts along North Carolina’s coast.

🔗 https://wcti12.com/news/local/volunteers-excavate-outer-banks-sea-turtle-nests-to-track-hatching-success

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Florida International University: Researchers install 3D-printed seawall tiles to support coastal protection and marine life. “The system uses modular, interlocking tiles that can be attached to existing seawalls. Each tile is robotically printed and designed with grooves, ridges, crevices and small pools that create more complex surfaces for marine organisms to attach, shelter and grow.”

Researchers across the globe are tracking ocean currents to map how floating plastic travels through the Pacific and beyond. Every bottle, bag, or straw plays a part in shaping these massive gyres of waste. Understanding this movement is the first step toward cleaning our oceans and protecting marine life. 🌎🐠

https://youtu.be/6HBtl4sHTqU

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Want a New Year's resolution that will save you time, money, water, and put less toxic gick on your body? Consider going "Poo-less". The One Community core team does this and we'd definitely recommend it. Your skin will be healthier and you will still smell good. Don't take our word for it though, here's an excellent Podcast by Paul Wheaton talking about his 2-year experience with this.

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