2016 University Lecture Presented by Richard B. Primack, Professor of Biology

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Walden Warming: Climate Change Comes to Thoreau’s Woods. For more than a decade, Professor Primack and his team have been using Henry David Thoreau’s records from the 1850s as a baseline to document the earlier flowering and leafing out [...]of plants, the variable responses of migratory birds, and the earlier melting of ice on Walden Pond. Wildflowers are also declining. If Thoreau were alive today, would he still recognize the Walden he chronicled 160 years ago?
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