'It's warm water now': climate change strands sea turtles on Cape Cod shores

The Gulf of Maine's rapidly warming waters draws in larger numbers of Kemp's ridley turtles, enticing them to stay longer

At the New England Aquarium's sea turtle hospital in a repurposed shipyard building south of Boston, the casualties of climate change swim in tanks as they recover after being pulled stunned from the beach.

Every year, as autumn turns to winter and ocean temperatures off Massachusetts drop below 10C (50F), dead, dying and stricken sea turtles wash up on the shores of Cape Cod as those shelled reptiles that have failed to migrate south start to die in the chilly waters.