A survey of nesting sites revealed a sharp increase in the amount of green sea turtle nests this year with volunteers counting more then 74,000 nests, a staggering 40% increase from 2017s record. The increase is most likely due to the conservation measures put in place after green sea turtles were listed under the endangered species act in 1978.

The catch is though, the sex of a baby sea turtle is not determined by its DNA but by the temperature of the sand in which its egg develops. cooler temperatures mean males and warmer means females. This is means that due to global warming most of the hatchlings are female. This will be a boom for the sea turtles as females can lay between 2 and 9 clutches of a 110 eggs each in a season but research suggests that climate change will outstrip the adaptive advantage of feminization.