A new study finds pollution in urban and farm runoff in Hawaii is causing tumors in endangered sea turtles. The study, published Tuesday in the peer-reviewed open-access journal iPeerJ/i, shows that nitrogen in the runoff ends up in algae that the turtles eat, promoting the formation of tumors on the animals' eyes, flippers and internal organs. Scientists at Duke University, the University of Hawaii and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...
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