Light Pollution

Jim Richardson

National Geographic Magazine

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.

Jim Richardson, "Light Pollution," in POYi Archive, Item #41852, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/41852 (accessed May 19, 2024).