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Sea turtles use light as a navigation tool, instinctively moving toward light at night. Sand dunes typically obscure the night's natural light from their view, and this instinct to follow the light allows them to then find the sea. But when artificial lights shine above the sand dunes, sea turtles can become disoriented and wander inland to their death. The Hillsboro Inlet Entrance Lighthouse in Pompano, Florida casts an extremely bright, 1,000-watt light onto the beach that attracts sea turtle hatchlings and lures them to their doom. The U.S. Coast Guard is currently evaluating the lighthouse and its effect on endangered sea turtles. It's unclear whether the lighthouse still serves a ...
Julie Larsen Maher © WCS Today is the first full day of summer! Wouldn't you love to celebrate by diving into an aquarium and swimming with the sea turtles? Well, you can't. Against all my wishes since I was 4 years old, most major aquariums still won't let patrons "participate" in the exhibits. But that doesn't mean they're not still amazing places to visit this summer or any time! Pictured is a loggerhead sea turtle at the Wildlife Conservation Society's New York Aquarium. Global warming and other environmental hazards have endangered the lives of these noble animals, as well as other aquatic creatures that you can see at the New York Aquarium, including hawksbill sea turtles, and ...
by Sea Stachura NOAA National Ocean Service, Flickr Nurdles are not friends of the kids' character Barney, or a sister product of Floam, but they are equally synthetic. Nurdles are the tiny plastic pieces that are used in molds to create everything from plastic packaging to doll's heads. So small are these oblong bits of plastic that they often fall through the cracks and out the doors of the trucks and factories that use them. They end up in the ocean. Shrimp, turtles, lobsters, fish and birds have all ingested these little plastic pieces thinking they were food. But plastic is indigestible, so smaller creatures like shrimp and bass die from constipation and starvation. if they are ...