Sunday, November 15, 2009

11/15/09 Blog #17

Turtles Are Casualties of Warming in Costa Rica

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/14/science/earth/14turtles.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

Elisabeth Rosenthal
11/13/2009
New York Times


Summary: The Pacific turtle population has vastly diminished due to the haphazard development and warmer temperatures that link to global warming. Playa Grande, Costa Rica was a tourist attraction known for their sea turle museum. However with the leatherbacks being threatened with extinction, Playa Grande’s expansive turtle museum was abandoned three years ago.


Response: This article is important because its expressing a larger issue than the decrease in the Pacifiic sea turtles, its expressing the disaster of global warming. Global warming is becoming a huge issue and the sea turtles dieing because of it is only one of the smaller problems.

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