Florida’s sea turtles are grappling with a unique problem made worse by climate change: recent heat waves have caused the sand on some beaches to get so hot that nearly every turtle born was female.

When sea turtles lay their eggs, the temperature of the sand determines whether that egg becomes a male or female turtle. But the planet is getting hotter— and that means a lot more turtles, in key ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Baby turtle doing her first steps to the ocean. Only female sea turtles have hatched on Florida's coasts over the past four years, ...

Florida's sea turtles are grappling with a gender imbalance made worse by climate change. Recent heat waves have caused the sand on some beaches to get so hot that nearly every turtle born was female.

A turtle hospital in Florida said all the turtles they tested for the past four years have been female, a worrying trend it attributes to climate change. The temperature of the sand where the eggs are ...

Every nesting season, adult female sea turtles travel hundreds or even thousands of miles across the open ocean before returning to the same beaches where they hatched decades earlier. This behavior, ...