In the course of a single year, the United States' University of Maine climate scientist Jacquelyn Gill lost both her mother and her stepfather.
She struggled with infertility, then during research in the Arctic, she developed embolisms in both lungs, was transferred to an intensive care unit in Siberia and nearly died. She was airlifted back home and later had a hysterectomy.
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