In Bomb Island, a teenager named Fish lives as the adopted son of island-dwellers who make their living running boat tours of the site where a nuclear bomb was accidentally dropped into the ocean decades ago.

Volunteers gathered at Jekyll Island’s South Beach to release dozens of endangered sea turtles back to water — the largest such release in Jekyll Island's recorded history.

After a decades-long decline, the number of loggerhead sea turtle nests on the Georgia coast hit its all-time high since recording began in the late 1980s. But an expert says there's still a lot of conservation work to do. 

There is definitely oil in the marshes near St. Simon’s island where a shipping vessel capsized this month. That’s the conclusion of University of...

More than a week after a cargo ship capsized in the St. Simons Sound on the Georgia coast, oil is being found on grasses in nearby marshes. The first...

For the last 31 years, sharks have been subject to a week of media frenzy, taking place each July. But, throughout the year, they face a number of...

It’s Shark Week on Discovery channel. Mark it with a look at these captivating fish along Georgia’s coast. On Second Thought is joined by Paulita...

The Georgia coast is a central calving spot for North Atlantic right whales; however, last year, no new calves were spotted there, and that caused great...

For generations, the Georgia coast has been home to folks who have made their living on the water. A new oral history project aims to trace the...