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Dead Loggerhead Turtle

In Florida a threatened loggerhead sea turtle succumbed to red tide, an algal bloom. Fertilizer from development may have spurred the state's 2005 red tide. "It was like nuclear winter underwater," says marine veterinarian Janine Cianciolo. "Everything was dead."

Photograph by Tyrone Turner