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Jim Richardson
National Geographic Magazine

"Light Pollution"


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Having laid her eggs, an endangered leatherback turtle shuffles seaward on Florida's Singer Island. She escaped the confusion created for the turtles by the light from beachfront development that can lead them off course. But her hatchlings may become confused by the lights and led away from the water to almost certain death.

 

 

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