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Changing Antarctica climate topic of talk

The Jamestown Press · last updated

Changing Antarctica climate topic of talk

The author of “The Quickening: Antarctica, Motherhood and Cultivating Hope in a Warming World” will discuss her book at 6 p.m. Monday, May 4, at the library, 26 North Road.

The multimedia presentation by Elizabeth Rush, “On Antarctica: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth,” details how women are visiting the “last continent” more than ever before as the climate crisis accelerates. Rush will recount the past, present and future of Antarctica, “exploring what it might look like to recognize the continent, itself, as an agent of change.”

“The Quickening: Antarctica” has received awards from NPR, National Geographic, the Society of Environmental Journalists and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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