Sea turtle strandings on the US east coast have increased drastically

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The number of cold-stunned sea turtles washing up on Cape Cod in Massachusetts has increased from dozens to hundreds within four decades

Life 27 February 2023

By Corryn Wetzel

A Kemp's ridley sea turtle makes its way to the ocean on June 29, 2022, at West Dennis Beach in West Dennis, Massachusetts after eight months of rehabilitation at the New England Aquariums sea turtle rehabilitation center in Quincy. - Over 500 were found on the shores of Cape Cod cold-stunned in November and December of 2021. (Photo by Lauren Owens Lambert / AFP) (Photo by LAUREN OWENS LAMBERT/AFP via Getty Images)

A growing number of sea turtles have been washing up each year on the beaches of Cape Cod. This Massachusetts peninsula is the site of the world’s largest recurring annual sea turtle stranding. The spike may be linked to warming ocean currents, which can carry more turtles into frigid Atlantic waters.

Each winter, hundreds of volunteers comb beaches on Cape Cod for sea turtles that have succumbed to hypothermia. Stunned by the cold, they can’t swim and are …

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