The ice at the end of the world : an epic journey into Greenland's buried past and our perilous future /

The ice at the end of the world : an epic journey into Greenland's buried past and our perilous future / Jon Gertner.

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"A riveting, urgent account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand the rapidly melting ice sheet in Greenland, a dramatic harbinger of climate change. Greenland: a remote, mysterious island five times the size of California but with a population of just 56,000. The ice sheet that...

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Main Author: Gertner, Jon (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Random House, [2019]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Discoveries in geography.
Ecology.
Research.
Greenland > Discovery and exploration.
Greenland > Environmental conditions.
Arctic regions > Research.
Arctic Regions.
Greenland.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. The view from above
  • Part I: Explorations (1888-1931). The scheme of a lunatic
  • Hauling
  • Simple and easy
  • North by Northeast
  • A pure primitive realm
  • Thule
  • TNT
  • Digging
  • Part II: Investigations (1949-2018). Machine age
  • The Americans
  • Drilling
  • Jesus ice
  • Deeper
  • Sensing
  • A key
  • Meltwater season
  • Epilogue. The ice clock.

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