SYDNEY: Rising sea levels from climate change are a threat to sea turtle (pic) populations as eggs laid on beaches become submerged in saltwater, Australian scientists said yesterday. Eggs buried by female turtles in usually “high and dry” areas on beaches could be inundated by rising sea levels and storm surges, a study by researchers from Australia’s James Cook University said.
Published in the Royal Society Open Science journal, the report focused on nests at the world’s largest green sea turtle nesting rookery at Raine Island on Australia’s far northeast coast.