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Giant leatherback turtles, some weighing half as much as a small car, drag themselves out of the ocean and up the sloping shore on the northeastern coast of Trinidad while villagers await wearing dimmed headlamps in the dark. Their black carapaces glistening, the turtles inch along the moonlit beach, using their powerful front flippers to move their bulky frames onto the sand.In years past, poachers from Grande Riviere and nearby towns would ransack the turtles' buried eggs and hack the critically threatened reptiles to death with machetes to sell their meat in the market. Now, the turtles are the focus of a thriving tourist trade, with people so devoted to them that they shoo birds away when the turtles first start out as tiny hatchlings scurrying to sea.The number of leatherbacks on this tropical beach has rebounded in spectacular fashion, with some 500 females nesting each night during the peak season in May and June, along the 800-meter-long (875-yard) beach. Researchers now consid...
A strong coastal storm will bring heavy rain and some gusty thunderstorms to parts of northeastern Argentina and Uruguay into the weekend. Major concerns include flo...
No two storms are ever exactly alike, and the case with the storm on the East Coast in March 6-7, 2013, may be no different. However, there may be great similarities...
Janice Dean with today's Northeastern weather forecast
Misguided interpretations of the ancient Mayan calendar have led to rumors of the world ending tomorrow, Friday, Dec. 21. Some doomsayers believe a rogue planet will...
Hurricane Season brings a number of storms every year, and while the cruise lines always need to react, most hurricanes are tightly-knit, slow-moving storms with som...
Hurricane Sandy is strengthening and now has maximum sustained winds of 90mph.
Just what New York and New Jersey need after the devastation of Superstorm Sandy: more high winds.The National Weather Service predicted Sunday that a Nor'easter tha...
Forecasters say another messy — and wintry — storm may cause post-Election Day problems for an already weather weary East Coast.But meteorologists add that it's six ...
Janice Dean reports from Fox News Weather Center
Another messy -- and wintry -- storm may cause post-Election Day problems for an already weather-weary East Coast, forecasters say.But meteorologists add that it's s...
Shivering victims of Superstorm Sandy went to church Sunday to pray for deliverance as cold weather settling in across the New York metropolitan region — and another...
Hurricane Sandy ready to strike
A storm destined to bring a swath of heavy snow from Minneapolis and Chicago to Washington, D.C., will cause problems at the coast from wind, beach erosion and coast...
It is not just snow and rain returning to the mid-Atlantic and far-southern New England, but also coastal flooding and erosion concerns.The coastal flooding problems...
A storm forecast to roll ashore in the Pacific Northwest Saturday will spread a swath of snow, rain, thunderstorms and wind across a large part of the nation next we...
A slow-moving storm centered far out in the Atlantic Ocean dropped up to a foot of snow in New England, caused coastal flooding in Massachusetts and slowed the morni...
A late-winter storm inflicted new damage Thursday to parts of the Jersey shore still struggling to recover from Superstorm Sandy, as New Englanders braced for potent...
There is still a chance that significant snow reaches the New York City metropolitan area and southern New England with the storm situation at midweek.It's nail-biti...
Impacts from a storm targeting millions of people in the eastern states will range from travel disruptions caused by heavy snow to power outages produced by strong w...