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Chipmunks actively forage during warm spells, then settle back into torpor, where body temperature drops from 100 to 40 degrees and breathing is reduced from 60 to 20 breaths a minute.

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Earth Matters: Wildlife shedding winter strategies, waking up to spring

by Tom Litwin For the GazetteMarch 21, 2020

View of the Connecticut Valley from Mt. Sugarloaf in South Deerfield. Landscape ecology allows resource managers to see and evaluate the big picture when deciding questions about land use and conservation.

Earth Matters: A bird’s eye view of landscape ecology

by Tom Litwin For the GazetteNovember 9, 2019

Subsistence hunters from Gamble Village prepare to launch into the Bering Sea off St. Lawrence Island. Reduced ice in the sea around St. Lawrence increases the length of hunting trips and the risks of those trips.

Earth Matters: Mission to a vanishing sea-ice landscape, part 3: When your garden melts

by Tom Litwin For the GazetteMay 31, 2019

University of Alaska researchers collecting Bering Sea water samples.

Mission to a vanishing sea-ice landscape, Part 2: Ecosystem

by Tom Litwin For the Gazette December 14, 2018

The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy icebreaking in the Bering Sea.

Earth Matters: Mission to a vanishing sea-ice landscape, Part 1: Icebreaking

by Tom Litwin For the GazetteDecember 3, 2018

A bowhead whale breaches off the Alaskan Coast.

Columnist Tom Litwin: Melting ice and Arctic geopolitics

by Tom Litwin July 19, 2018

An 1893 Duryea motor wagon built in Springfield, one of the first gasoline-powered automobiles. Gasoline and diesel vehicles are a major source of increased carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere.

Earth Matters: Climate change: How did we get here?

by Tom Litwin For the GazetteJune 15, 2018

Historian Dennis Picard demonstrates ice harvesting on Nashawannuck Pond during the Easthampton 2018 WinterFest.

Earth Matters: As the Earth’s air conditioners falter, extreme weather results

by Tom Litwin For the GazetteJune 1, 2018