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Making the planetary personal: the roots of climate science

Ruth A. Morgan lauds a book chronicling the evolution of Earth-systems science through the stories of its luminaries.
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    1. Ruth A. Morgan is a historian of science and the environment at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. She is a lead author of the forthcoming sixth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

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Waters of the World: The Story of the Scientists Who Unravelled the Mysteries of our Seas, Glaciers, and Atmosphere — and Made the Planet Whole Sarah Dry Scribe UK (2019)

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Nature 573, 341-343 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-02739-6

This article is part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 media outlets to highlight the issue of climate change.

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The author is employed by Monash University (Australia), where she receives research funding from the Australian Research Council.

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