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Green sea turtles help manage seagrass meadows. A new study shows the two-way relationship between healthy seagrass and marine mega herbivores, pointing toward the importance of conservation efforts for ecosystem stability. Image by P. Lindgren via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).
September 21, 2021
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Humanity is quickly crossing critical planetary boundaries that threaten sea turtle populations, their ecosystems and, ultimately, the “safe operating space” for human existence. Sea turtles have survived millions of years, but marathon migrations put them at increasing risk for the additive impacts of adverse anthropogenic activity on land and at sea, including impacts from biodiversity loss, climate change, ocean acidification, land-use change, pollution (especially plastics), and more.

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