https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/21/climate-crisis-glacier-diana-six-ecologist

Diana Six, an entomologist studying beetles near Glacier national park in Montana, says the crisis has fundamentally changed her profession

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About this contentJyotiMadhusoodananWed 21 Jul 2021 04.00 EDT

Diana Six’s love of the outdoors began before she could form words, run, or collect the bugs and fungi that were precious to her as a child. A tough home life eventually led her to drop out of school and live on the streets. But biology classes in community college helped Six discover her calling in studying various forms of life. “They took me right back to how I was as a kid,” she says.

Now an entomologist at the University of Montana, she has spent the last 30years researching how bark beetles are decimating…