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Mongabay: A drier, hotter climate in Central America could wipe out the population of leatherback sea turtles from the eastern Pacific Ocean by the year 2100, according to a grim projection published on July 1 in Nature Climate Change. Already critically endangered from fisheries by-catch and historic egg poaching, leatherbacks can hardly accommodate another human-related threat. Yet scientists still hold out hope for interventions that could save the turtles.
Leatherbacks (Dermochelys coriacea)--the largest......
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Climate change threatens population of Earth’s largest sea turtle
Posted by Mongabay: Jessica Shugart on November 19th, 2012
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