Entries for category "Print | Web"
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wallacejnichols
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May 7, 2007
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By: Emily Laughnan The moon casts a gauzy, yellow light along the tops of curling waves. It’s after midnight along Florida’s Gulf Coast. Waves knead the shores, repetitive and predictable. Until she arrives. Like magic, the sea turtle’s shadowy figure remains on shore as the shimmering tide pulls away. Then…
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wallacejnichols
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May 4, 2007
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By Coco Ballantyne HIJO DEL SANTO is serious about defending sea turtle from poachers. Image: © WiLDCOAST The Best Science Writing Online 2012 Showcasing more than fifty of the most provocative, original, and significant online essays from 2011, The Best Science Writing Online 2012 will change the way...Read More »…
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wallacejnichols
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April 30, 2007
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In Mexico's Magdalena Bay in Baja California, a Trans Am pulls into a village courtyard, parking behind an underground restaurant. When the trunk is opened, it's full of green turtles flipped on their backs, alive and kicking. Jeffrey Brown, an American photojournalist, starts taking pictures. Alongside him is J. Wallace…
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wallacejnichols
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April 15, 2007
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Introduction A solitary loggerhead turtle in the middle of a vast ocean may not sound like an adventure film, but stick with her. Along her 9,000-mile voyage to nest, our loggerhead tour guide in Voyage of the Lonely Turtle encounters hammerhead sharks, deep ocean tempests, and man-made death traps in…
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wallacejnichols
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April 13, 2007
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In 1996, local sea turtle researcher Wallace "J" Nichols attached a tracking device to a 233-pound loggerhead turtle he had named Adelita. Adelita swam in the waters of Baja California, sunning and feasting on the rich sea life, as the equipment monitored her whereabouts. Then one day, Adelita plunged into…
