Helping endangered sea turtles, by air
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At first glance it can look like a morgue: sea turtles, limp and motionless. But if you look closely enough, what might look like a corpse offers a slow glimpse of life. The turtles had all washed up in Massachusetts this past December, on the windy beaches of Cape Cod Bay. They were nearly frozen to death. "The turtles, especially today, 38°, if that turtle sits out for two, three hours, I mean, it's gonna die," said biologist Bob Prescott. "It's just not going to recover from that kind of shock, from the cold." A cold-stunned turtle in recovery. CBS News The problem, though, isn't so much the cold as it is our ever-warming oceans. Prescott, director emeritus of the Massachusetts Audubon Wildlife Sanctuary in Wellfleet, says the Gulf of Maine (which includes Cape Cod Bay) is now...