"Turtles are casualties of warming in Costa Rica"
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/14/science/earth/14turtles.html?mod=yhoofront
Global warming is often viewed as this ominous black cloud of misfortune invisibly creeping over the earth to have disastrous effects on future generations, but in Costa Rica, rises in global temperature are having a direct and visible effect on life, particularly the very endangered sea turtle population. The smallest rise of temperature is quickly shrinking the species, and in attempts to save the sea turtles, humans are taking eggs, nesting them in the proper temperatures and then releasing the new hatchlings into the wild. But how much is too much intervening? One man interviewed likens human attempts to saving the turtles to 'playing God': is this true? If so, is that even a bad thing if the result is staying, Is the species even meant to be saved as part of a natural selection? Then again, judging from the many man-made factors of their possible extinction, were they even meant to be endangered?
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