‘We’re releasing life’: Heat wave speeds turtle hatching in Peru


SAN JOSE DE LUPUNA, Peru — In the Peruvian Amazon, an extended heat wave and drought have shortened the incubation period for thousands of turtle hatchlings released into the river by biologists as part of a local environmental program. Around 3,200 yellow-spotted Amazon river turtles, known locally as taricayas, were freed as part of a

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