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The Hidden Life of Ice

Dispatches from a Disappearing World

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The Hidden Life of Ice

By: Marco Tedesco, Alberto Flores d'Arcais, Elizabeth Kolbert - foreword
Narrated by: Joel Richards
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A pioneering researcher's illuminating account of Arctic ice - its secret history and dire future

Barely inhabited, the Arctic is an alien world to most of us. It also holds critical clues about the future of our planet. In The Hidden Life of Ice, Marco Tedesco invites us to Greenland, where he and his fellow scientists are doggedly researching the dramatic changes afoot. Following the arc of his typical day at work, Tedesco unearths the secrets in the ice - from evidence of long-extinct "polar camels" to the fantastically weird microorganisms living at freezing temperatures in cryoconite holes.

Tedesco weaves together the bald facts on climate change with poetic reflections on this endangered landscape, the epic deeds of great Arctic explorers, and the legends of the rare local populations. The Hidden Life of Ice is more than a diatribe on climate - it's a moving tribute to a beautiful place that may be gone too soon.

(P)2020 Tantor Arctic & Antarctica Ecosystems & Habitats Environment Nature & Ecology Outdoors & Nature Science Polar Region Polar Ice
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Absolutely beautifully written! Very informative but also poetic journey through scientific research, climate change and the state of a modern world. Also touching on various social issues such as inequality and racism.

Absolutely beautifully written!

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A very good non fiction audio book that mixes the author personal journey to the arctic with scientific updates on the arctic and climate change. This approach makes palatable what could also be very dry and flat factual information to listen to.

For anyone interested in the Arctic and or climate change

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