Apr 29, 2021
MELBOURNE – On an evening in the Southern Hemisphere’s late spring that was still cold enough for a jacket, Julie Arblaster joined about 100 other choral singers at the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra rehearsal studio to practice a new piece of music. Its name was “Fire of the Spirit.”
It celebrated a female mystic from the 12th century whose words might have been spoken by environmental activist Greta Thunberg in the 21st: “The Earth sustains humanity. It must not be injured; it must not be destroyed.”
Arblaster, an Australian climatologist, had just co-authored a paper about a weakening Antarctic polar vortex. She knew it would combine with a worrying set of conditions that can occur in the waters surrounding her vast country.
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Anne Sosin was feeling optimistic.
The Dartmouth College researcher had just booked an appointment to receive her first dose of the Moderna vaccine and was preparing for a run when her neighbor called. It was bad news: The woman, who often provided child care for Sosin’s daughter, had contracted COVID-19.
“I was blindsided,” Sosin said.
Within the hour, she and her 8-year-old daughter were tested for COVID-19 at a site in Fairlee, a 10-minute drive from their home in Thetford. Sosin would test negative, her daughter positive. After getting the go-ahead from the Vermont Department of Health, Sosin received her first shot two days later, hoping to outrun the virus. She did not and tested positive a
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