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Climate Change Is Turning Green Sea Turtles Female. That's a Problem
Over 99 percent of turtle hatchlings in northern Australia are female due to increasing sand and sea temperatures
This is a Hefneresque sex ratio.Of all the potential consequences of climate change—rising sea levels, desertification, floods—here’s one that may not be on your radar: climate change is producing an abundance of female turtles. As Helen Davidson at The Guardian reports, according to a new study, warmer sands in a certain section of beach along The Great Barrier Reef have caused more than 99 percent of green sea turtles to hatch as female.