Cape Charles

A Virginia aquarium team will release three Kemp's ridley sea turtles on the Eastern Shore. The Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center says the release of the turtles named Snap, Crackle and Pop, is scheduled for 11 a.m. Tuesday at Cape Charles....

The stranding response team at the Virginia Aquarium will release three rehabilitated sea turtles off the Eastern Shore this morning after spending most of the summer nursing the turtles back to health. The turtles -- named Snap, Crackle and Pop -- are...

Three stranded sea turtles dubbed "Snap", "Crackle", and "Pop" will be released off Cape Charles on Tuesday by the Virginia Aquarium. In July they were rescued from the cooling water intake of a nuclear generator station. All had injuries and needed to be...

Snap, Crackle and Pop are getting a second chance. The three juvenile Kemp's ridley sea turtles were rescued in July from the cooling water intake canal of a nuclear generator station by the Marine Mammal Stranding Center in Brigantine, New Jersey....

Scientists drilling into the site where a giant meteorite smashed into the lower Chesapeake Bay millions of years ago have found one more surprise amid the microscopic life and pockets of prehistoric ocean. The water is saltier than expected - and no one...

Under the briny waters of this rural Worcester County hamlet, Maryland's fledgling aquaculture industry is getting its sea legs. Here, along the sandy bottom of Chincoteague Bay just south of Ocean City, Steve and Christy Gordon have planted millions...

What a week for weather. It started with one of the toughest nor'easters of the winter-spring season laying a lashing or two on the Virginia coastline. Then scientists are worried about a hunk of the Continental Shelf breaking off, creating a tsunami,...