News Headline
A WARMING PLANET JOLTS THE ICONIC CREATURES OF THE GALÁPAGOS
Source
National Geographic
Publication Date
2017-05-26
Jon Witman checks his air gauge, adjusts his flippers, and falls backwards into the Pacific. Nearby, the ocean throws itself against Isla Beagle, one of a hundred-plus rocks, pinnacles, and islands that form the Galápagos archipelago, a province of Ecuador that straddles the Equator. Rebuffed, the sea retreats in a white flag of foam.