Our ardent love of New England speaks to the gravity of our worry as we begin to see the toll a changing climate is taking on the landscape we love. Those of us who are out in the wild – climbing, hunting, fishing – are some of the first to see these signs so dramatically and undeniably. Here are seven undeniable changes we have seen.
We here at NEMO take enormous inspiration from John Muir, the great naturalist, writer and mountaineer, founder of the Sierra Club, and a pioneer of the conservationist movement. But it remains it remains lesser known that he pioneered the scientific study of glaciers — or glaciology — particularly in alpine settings.