Endangered sea turtles killed by cold snap

[ben_meyers]

Every year, endangered sea turtles wash up on the beaches of Massachusetts' Cape Cod Bay, freezing and near death. Most are nursed back to health.
This fall, though, an unusually early, long cold snap and lashing winds have caused more Kemp's Ridley sea turtles, the most endangered sea turtles in the world, to wash ashore dead, says Tony LaCasse, spokesman for the New England Aquarium in Boston, which rehabilitates sick turtles and returns them to the wild.

Since late October, the aquarium has received 36 turtles, 30 of them since Thursday, LaCasse says. Most are Kemp's Ridleys.

"We had probably 20 turtles that arrived dead," he says. In past years, 80% to 90% arrived alive.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/environment/2008-11-25-turtle_N.htm?csp=34



Canaries in a mine shaft?

[NickB79]

1. The Gulf Stream is starting to shut down, as predicted?

:shrug: