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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Photo: Global Warming Forces Innovative Sea Turtle Protection


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Baby green turtles head toward the sea at Playa Parismina, on Costa Rica's Caribbean coast.

Scientists are increasingly finding they have no choice but to intervene as a warming Earth, changing ocean conditions, and coastal development threaten to outpace rare sea turtles' ability to adapt.

Photograph by David Sherwood