Turtle Island Restoration Network (TIRN) is hosting the 2nd annual Hatchling Hustle on Galveston Island. The Hatchling Hustle is a 5K run and 1 mile fun run on the Babe’s Beach, 6285 Seawall, Galveston, Texas between 61st Street Fishing Pier and Galveston Fishing Pier. This year, the event will occur on Saturday, March 23rd, 2024 from 7 to 9:30 a.m. TIRN is using the Hatchling Hustle to educate the public about the endangered sea turtles in the Gulf of Mexico, specifically br

Clean Green & Pristine: Because of the Parkboard THE GALVESTON PARK BOARD IS CHARGED WITH DIRECTING TOURISM EFFORTS ON THE ISLAND – IT’S OUR JOB TO BALANCE WHAT’S GOOD FOR VISITORS WITH WHAT’S GOOD FOR RESIDENTS.After all, most of the visitors who come here do so to dip their toes in the Gulf and most of the people who have chosen to live here do so to be close to the water. Keeping the beach environment clean and educating beach goers about its fragility is a top priority fo

The facts about single-use plastic straws: average lifespan is less than 30 minutes; Americans use 390 to 500 million single use plastic straws per day - enough to wrap around the earth 2.5 times; plastic straws take 200-500 years to decompose; and plastic straws are not recyclable. Turtle Island Restoration Network (TIRN), an ocean conservation group in Galveston is joining a worldwide movement to protect the environment from an increasingly urgent threat: single-use pl

Climate change is a growing concern in our society, spurred by rising temperatures, devastating natural disasters, catastrophic predictions, and counter-productive environmental policies enacted by President Trump in recent years. Climate change deniers exist among us, including Texas Senator Ted Cruz. According to the Texas Tribune, Cruz stated in 2015 that “global warming alarmists are the equivalent of the flat-earthers.” In effect, he was comparing a phenomenon recognized

According to recent estimates, over 8 million tons of plastic enter our oceans every year. Over 150 million metric tons of plastic currently circulate our oceans. The United Nations stated during a General Assembly high-level meeting that we have until 2030 to prevent irreversible damage from climate change. Hundreds of thousands of whales, sea turtles, fish, sharks, and seabirds die each year from ingesting plastic. Species that have been inhabiting the earth for millions o

As scientists are continuously evaluating the vital signs of our Earth, the diagnoses are coming back less and less promising if we continue our society’s way of life in this unsustainable direction. So, we’ve all heard it before – climate change. There are seemingly endless lists of negative ramifications that are the result of human perturbation on natural ecosystems including the alteration of land use in physical and chemical ways. Due to anthropogenic activity (industri