Sea turtles are nesting in record numbers this season on North Carolina's coast. The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission has recently confirmed an estimated number of more than 1,600 nests on the state’s coast. The commission runs the sea turtle project that aims to protect nesting sea turtles at beach sites across the state.

Around a year back, President Barack Obama announced the White House Arctic Initiative and now, the researchers have come up with 3D maps for the whole State of Alaska.

Theinitiative was launched to support the efforts done tostudy the Arctic region, to involve the residents and to evolve such services,tools and products to improve the activitiesin the Polar region, Arctic.

ASU professor-co-authored study has demonstrated the role shade distribution across an animal’s habitat plays in its well-being. As per a new research that enlisted the help of dozens of spiny lizards in the New Mexico desert, existing models used for the prediction of species survival in a warming world could be off target.

A newly-discovered fish species is named after the US President Barack Obama for his contribution in marine conservation in Hawaii. The president was in island of Midway Atoll on September 1 to talk about the conservation necessary to counteract the impacts of climate change in the island.