ABC News: Students Spend Summer at Top of the Earth

ABC News: Students Spend Summer at Top of the Earth: “Not that Ben Wessel needed inspiration to pursue environmental initiatives, but his recent journey to the Arctic brought home the monumental challenges of combating climate change.

” ‘The Arctic makes you feel so small,’ said Wessel, a 19-year-old student from Middlebury College in Vermont, who joined 17 other students from around the world as part of the World Wildlife Fund-sponsored trip. ‘But it’s cool, because it makes you feel like you have a big part in this world when you realize that we have such a big impact on glaciers at such a huge scale.’ “