A team of scientists from Duke University , the University of Hawaii and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) discovered that pollution around the Hawaiian islands is causing lethal tumors on the endangered sea turtle population . The report, which was published in the peer-reviewed open-access journal PeerJ , states that high levels of nitrogen from urban and farm runoff have poisoned the algae that sea turtles eat, causing deadly tumors to grow on the poor turtles’ flippers, eyes and internal organs. Read the rest of How Humans Could Be Causing Lethal Tumors On Endangered Sea Turtles Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Duke University , green turtles , nitrogen pollution , nitrogen runoff , NOAA , ocean pollution , pollution causing tumors , pollution killing sea turtles , pollution killing wildlife , pollution turtle death , sea pollution , sea turtle pollution , sea turtle tumors , sea turtle tumors pollution , tumours , turtle illness , turtles tumours , university of hawaii
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How Humans Could Be Causing Lethal Tumors On Endangered Sea Turtles
