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| Foote Was First! |
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| How One Curious Woman Connected Carbon Dioxide and Climate Change |
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written by Jen Bryant
illustrated by Amy June Bates
Published by Quill Tree Books, an imprint of Harper Collins
ISBN 9780062957061, hardcover $19.99, 40pp.
Ages 4 and up
On sale 13 January 2026 |
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| Eunice Newton Foote was a pioneer in climate science at a time when women were excluded from scientific discussions, publications and organizations. But she was the very first person (although someone else claimed that HE was the first!) to prove the link between carbon dioxide in our atmosphere and a warming Earth. Foote Was First shares the story of her childhood, education, marriage, motherhood and participation in the Seneca Falls Women’s Rights convention — and how her experiments proved the process known today as the greenhouse effect. |
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| Resources |
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| Watch the feature SHORT FILM “Eunice,” written by Randi L. Hanson & Moira James-Moore; dir by Eric Garro; starring Holly Lawton, Oliver Hembrough, Helen Jessica Liggat. |
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| Read Eunice Foote’s “Circumstances Affecting the Sun’s Rays” in the American Journal of Art and Science, November 1856. |
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| Read the text of the Declaration of Sentiments, signed by 68 women (Eunice is #5) and 32 men, at the First Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, NY, July 20, 1848. |
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| Climate.gov/NOAA celebrates Eunice Foote as a “hidden science climate pioneer.” |
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| Enjoy the Google Doodle, published on July 17, 2023, Eunice Foote’s 204 birthday! |
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| Chemist E. Dovrou explains why Foote’s research remains “strikingly relevant.” |
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