El Niño weather and climate change threaten survival of baby leatherback sea turtles
Posted by ScienceDaily: Oceanography News on 24 May, 2012
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When critically endangered leatherback turtle hatchlings dig out of their nests, they enter a world filled with threats to survival. Now, Drexel University researchers have found that the climate conditions at the nesting beach affect the early survival of turtle eggs and hatchlings. They predict, based on projections from multiple models, that egg and hatchling survival will drop by half in the next 100 years as a result of global climate change....