Supercharged by Pollution, Florida´s Toxic Algae Crisis Continues Unabated
(WorldNews Mexico)

`Covering stuff up doesn´t make it go away,` said Lilly Womble, an 18-year-old on vacation on Florida´s Sanibel Island. The island is world renowned for its sea shells but that day we were watching employees from the Sanibel Moorings Resort pull a sheet over a dead loggerhead sea turtle on the beach behind the hotel. One of the men covering the turtle said that people had seen it long enough, and he didn´t want it to scare kids. `I think it is better if kids see what we are doing to the planet,` Womble told me. `Maybe seeing the dead turtle will make them pay attention to the environment.` Her 9-year-old sister Ellie agreed, adding that `covering the turtle won´t stop other turtles from...