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By fact-checking Thoreau's observations at Walden Pond, we showed how old diaries and specimens can inform modern research

  • Written by Tara K. Miller, PhD Candidate in Biology, Boston University
imageScientists have used author Henry David Thoreau's notes to inform studies of climate change in eastern Massachusetts.Tom Stohlman/Flickr, CC BY-SA

Henry David Thoreau, the environmental philosopher and author of “Walden”, was a keen observer of seasonal change. In 1862, for example, he wrote in the Atlantic Monthly:

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