. >> i'm joined by science producer nsikan akpan.a science guy and know about melting glaciers and polar bears. why do we care about loggerhead turtles. >> we're calling the series the wild side of sea level rise because we're looking at incidental ways sea level rise impacts the wildlife on the coast. sea turtles are not that tiny. a loggerback can weigh as much as a motorcycle but climate change has a huge im-- sea level rise has a huge impact on their nests. sea level rise is watching out nests, storm surges are a part. we have the issue with beach erosion, squeezing the amount of area sea turtles have to nest. >> ifill: i highly recommend people reading your report which is very interesting but one of the things that struck me is you reported that only one in 7,000 of these loggerheads, once born, actually make it to adulthood. >> right, sea turtles and especially hatchlings serve as prey for a lot of predators. when we were on the beach producer mike fritz and i saw a fox running around the beach and one of the researchers told