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Archive Home > 2008 > October > 28 > Thoreau is being rediscovered – as an early climate researcher

Thoreau is being rediscovered – as an early climate researcher

‘Walden’ author’s notes being used to link plant growth, climate change

By Cornelia Dean / The Bulletin
October 28, 2008

CONCORD, Mass. — Henry David Thoreau endorsed civil disobedience, opposed slavery and lived for two years in a hut in the woods, an experience he described in “Walden.” Now he turns out to have another line in his résumé: climate researcher.

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