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The Thing with Feathers: On mountains, climate science and hope
In this story that was commissioned as part of the Covering Climate Now campaign, Michelle Dowd reports on her time spent observing scientists at Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Colorado last summer and considers today’s climate crisis through the lens of her deeply religious upbringing.