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CONSIDER OUR CHILDRENJane Lovell

Jane Lovell — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 08:44:48 +0000

I’m not an academic. I’m not a scientist or a geographer. I can only give you the broad brushstrokes of an observer, a reader, a poet. Bear with me. How do we see the Earth? Imagine her from space. Describe her. We’ll probably say mostly blue, random areas of green. We won’t mention the [...]

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Dispatch from AustraliaJean McNeil

Jean McNeil — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 10:35:01 +0000

Scribbly gum forest We inch westward on a sluggish commuter train. The trees look African – acacias? – but on closer inspection are not. Everything initially looks African or European (my two points of reference) but then isn’t. It is 35 degrees. Of my trip to the Blue Mountains, everyone in Sydney says, [...]

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UTQIAGVIK : WHALE SNOWDoreen Cunningham

Doreen Cunningham — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 07:31:09 +0000

Latitude: 71° 17′ 26″ N Longitude: 156° 47′ 19″ W Big fat flakes of snow drifted past the kitchen window. I watched them fall, while stirring honey into my oatmeal. ‘Whale snow.’ Julia sighed. ‘That’s the kind of snow you get when whales are around. They’re out there. Just we can’t get to them.’ [...]

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Simply Climate Change | Dorling Kindersley

Katie Percival — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 20:13:37 +0000

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Read: A dispatch from the French AlpsNatasha Randall

Natasha Randall — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 08:00:49 +0000

There were blue tits nesting in the eaves above our front door this spring. The parent birds brought beakfuls of fat green worms and spindly flying bugs for the calling babies. We moved into a small gite, the lower floor of a chalet at the top of a small French mountain just a month [...]

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