We’re excited to announce that The Art of Saving Sea Turtles is returning for its fifth year on Sunday, October 18th at the historic 1859 Ashton Villa in Galveston, Texas! This…
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Galveston ghost wolves play with a soccer ball after dark by Nicolas Ledesma-Lubertino. A 351-acre real estate development, known as “Discovery Sands”, has been proposed next to Jamaica Beach in…
Header photo credit: NOAA.
The Gulf of Mexico is home to one of the rarest whales on Earth — the critically endangered Rice’s whale. Found nowhere else in the world, this magnificent species…
Photo by G.P. Schmahl, TIRN’s Board Secretary and retired Superintendent of the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary. Photo Credit: G.P. Schmahl/NOAA.
In 2019, San Antonio Bay Estuarine Waterkeeper and Diane Wilson won the largest citizen Clean Water Act settlement in U.S. history against Formosa Plastics, which included a binding agreement to zero discharge…
The Gulf of Mexico is home to more than twenty species of threatened and endangered species. From green sea turtles to nassau grouper, and from rough cactus coral to the…
For Immediate Release, April 28, 2026 Contacts: Joanie Steinhaus, Ocean Program Director, joanie@seaturtles.org Laurel Irvine, Communications Manager, lirvine@seaturtles.org Join International Plastic Pellet Count Day Efforts Along the Gulf Coast Turtle…
Header Image: Aerial view of a Rice’s whale in the Gulf of Mexico. Image: NOAA/ NEFSC While tensions with Iran have dominated headlines, the Trump administration has launched another war…