With sands made hotter by the global warming, eggs are rarely yielding male turtles, which require cooler temperatures during the incubation period.
On a Yemeni beach, a sea turtle clambers ashore to lay eggs, which will likely be born female due to rising temperatures, creating a gender imbalance that brings the threat of local extinction.
The severe gender imbalance will continue until it brings about the complete extinction of sea turtles in Yemen"in the years to come", Baouzir said. This is especially the case in summer, when temperatures often top 31 degrees Celsius -- the point at which sea turtle eggs begin yielding females. In 2018, US researchers found that rising temperatures meant most of the 200,000 green turtles in the northern Great Barrier Reef are female, compounding the threat of extinction.Yemen, wedged between the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, boasts a rich variety of natural habitats and species, many of them found nowhere else in the world.
Extreme heat and increasing rainfall variability leading to both drought and flash floods are among the challenges forecast for the Arabian Peninsula's poorest country. But environmental conservation has inevitably taken a back seat to the grinding civil war, which has killed hundreds of thousands of people and left the country's infrastructure in tatters.
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