Ice Rivers (eBook)

A Story of Glaciers, Wilderness, and Humanity

Jemma Wadham (Autor)

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2021
256 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22901-0 (ISBN)

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A passionate eyewitness account of the mysteries and looming demise of glaciersand what their fate means for our shared futureThe ice sheets and glaciers that cover one-tenth of Earth's land surface are in grave peril. High in the Alps, Andes, and Himalaya, once-indomitable glaciers are retreating, even dying. Meanwhile, in Antarctica, thinning glaciers may be unlocking vast quantities of methane stored for millions of years beneath the ice. In Ice Rivers, renowned glaciologist Jemma Wadham offers a searing personal account of glaciers and the rapidly unfolding crisis that theyand weface.Taking readers on a personal journey from Europe and Asia to Antarctica and South America, Wadham introduces majestic glaciers around the globe as individualseven friendseach with their own unique character and place in their community. She challenges their first appearance as silent, passive, and lifeless, and reveals that glaciers are, in fact, as alive as a forest or soil, teeming with microbial life and deeply connected to almost everything we know. They influence crucial systems on which people depend, from lucrative fisheries to fertile croplands, and represent some of the most sensitive and dynamic parts of our world. Their fate is inescapably entwined with our own, and unless we act to abate the greenhouse warming of our planet the potential consequences are almost unfathomable.A riveting blend of cutting-edge research and tales of encounters with polar bears and survival under the midnight sun, Ice Rivers is an unforgettable portrait ofand love letter toour vanishing icy wildernesses.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.9.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 26 color + 2 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
• Schlagworte: Alps • Antarctic • Antarctic Ice Sheet • Antarctic krill • Arolla • arsenic • Atmosphere of Earth • Aufeis • Autotroph • Bacteria • Basal sliding • Body of water • Borehole • Burn • carbon • Carbon dioxide • Cenozoic • CHEMICAL ENERGY • Chemotroph • Chhota Shigri • Chucao tapaculo • Cirque glacier • clathrate hydrate • Clear River • Climate • climate change • Climate of Antarctica • condensation • cooking • crevasse • crustacean • cryoconite • Crystal • crystal structure • Dinghy • disaster • Drainage system (agriculture) • earth • eemian • electric charge • electric current • Erosion • European robin • Fantasyland • Food • Fossil fuel • Freezing • Geophysics • Gin and Tonic • Glacial period • Glass bottle • Glen Shee • Gram per litre • Greenhouse Gas • Greenland Ice Sheet • Hairpin turn • Health crisis • Helicopter • heterotroph • Holocene • Hydrate • hydrogen atom • ICE • Ice Age • ice axe • ice cap • ice cave • icefall • Ice field • ice sheet • ice shelf • Iceway • Indus waters treaty • In the Water • Isotope • Jorge Montt Glacier • Karst • Katabatic wind • Krill • Lake District • learning • level playing field • Limescale • McMurdo Dry Valleys • Measurement • melting point • Meltwater • methane • methane clathrate • Methanogen • Methanotroph • Metres above sea level • microscope • Molecule • month • Moraine • Moulin (geomorphology) • Natural Environment Research Council • nitrogen • North America • Northern Europe • Nothofagus • nutrient • ocean current • operating table • organism • Outburst Flood • oxygen • Pallor • Particulates • Patagonia • permafrost • pH • photosynthesis • Phototroph • Phytoplankton • Polar climate • Properties of Water • Pyrite • Quantity • Queulat National Park • Rain • Redox • Rock flour • Rock glacier • Rocky Valley • Rohtang Pass • room temperature • Ross Sea • sadness • Sailboat • Science (journal) • sea ice • sea level • Sea Level Rise • seawater • Sediment • sediment trap • serac • shellfish • sinkhole • Soil • Solar energy • Solar Panel • Solution • Subterranean river • Sulfur • surface layer • Surface Water • Tell-Tale • Temperature • Tipi • Total Organic Carbon • To the Earth • Tourism • Tree stump • University of Bristol • Walrus ivory • Water • water filter • West Antarctica • Wood-burning stove • year
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22901-5 / 0691229015
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22901-0 / 9780691229010