Climate change is largely driving the increase in stranded turtles, which has risen sharply across the northwestern Atlantic since the 1970s
the largest stranding years occurred when late October and early November sea-surface temperatures in the Gulf of Maine were warmer than normal. If that trend continues—and projections suggest it will—more than 2,300 juvenile Kemp’s ridleys could cold-stun in Cape Cod Bay each year by 2031
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/13122025/sea-turtles-freezing-in-cape-cod/

















