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

“October is...

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