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Eunice Newton Foote: Scientist and women’s rights activist who planted seed of climate change awareness

Google is today marking the birth anniversary of American scientist Eunice Newton Foote, who laid the foundation of climate change awareness as early as the mid-19th century.

Overlooked no more: Eunice Foote, climate scientist lost to history
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Overlooked no more: Eunice Foote, climate scientist lost to history

Foote’s ingenious experiment more than 150 years ago yielded a remarkable discovery that could have helped shape modern climate science had she not been overshadowed.
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