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Today鈥檚 stories explore the challenge of detangling fact and fear about coronavirus, what due process means for asylum-seekers, the stakes at play in Israel鈥檚 third presidential election in a year, what to make of the swarms of locusts ravaging East Africa, and a compassionate bid to rescue wallabies in Australia.

As science editor, I spend a lot of time thinking about how best to communicate with Monitor readers about climate change. Last night, I spent the evening learning how another publication does it. I moderated a panel discussion featuring four key collaborators on The Boston Globe鈥檚 most ambitious 鈥撀燼nd successful聽鈥� climate story to date, 鈥�.鈥�

The problem with much climate coverage, Globe narrative editor Steve Wilmsen told the audience, is that it focuses on either dire predictions for a distant future or current circumstances in remote corners of the world. In short, it is easy to feel disconnected 鈥� as if climate change is something that happens to other people in some hopeless future.聽

That challenge is one we are familiar with at the Monitor. Those same principles guide our 鈥淐limate Realities鈥� series. Where our reporters aim to transport readers into communities around the world, Mr.聽Wilmsen needed to bring the story home. So he took readers to a sacred place for many New Englanders: Cape Cod.

The end result, which took more than a dozen staffers over six months, is a 14,000-word immersive experience. It is an intimate portrait of a community struggling to hold onto a way of life that is slipping away. But it is also a call for hope. As lead reporter and writer Nestor Ramos wrote, 鈥淚f we can still see it, we can still save it. But only if we look.鈥�