 So when she turned 18, she took her love of the natural world with her to university and after graduating, got a job as a climate modeler before finding her way into journalism. She wanted to tell stories about climate change, not a very trendy topic in the early 2000s. So when she won a bursary to travel to Alaska in her early 30s to witness the impact of climate change on communities on the front line, she couldn't quite believe her luck. She ended up in Utqiagvik, Alaska.