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Using Thoreau’s Journals to Track Climate Change

Living on Earth
August 15, 2013
  • By Bruce Gellerman
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Scientists are using Henry David Thoreau’s detailed diaries to analyze the ebb and flow of the natural world. They conclude climate change has significantly altered the budding of wildflowers, and the migration of birds, at Walden Pond and beyond.

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