A sea turtle's sex is largely dependent on the temperature of the sand they lay their eggs in. Green turtle nests in northern parts of the Great Barrier reef that average below 29.1 degrees ...

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It’s a girl. Again. The vast majority of green sea turtles in an area of the Great Barrier Reef are now female because of climate change, researchers report in Current Biology. The temperature ...

Male sea turtles are disappearing from Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. A new study of gender ratios found that 99 percent of immature green turtles born in the northern part of the reef are female.

There are great concerns for the long-term survival of green turtles in northern parts of the Reef. Turtles can be quite ... The project has already shown that pouring sea water on a nest can ...

A new study reveals increasing temperatures are turning green turtle populations almost completely female in the northern Great Barrier Reef. A new study reveals increasing temperatures are turning ...

Climate change has been disastrous for coral on Australia's Great Barrier Reef. It's also spelling trouble for the more than 200,000 green sea turtles which make the area home, one of the world's ...

The Great Barrier Reef is the largest organic structure ... critical shelter and resources are four species of sea turtle—green, flatback, hawksbill, and loggerhead—with leatherback and ...