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Global warming usually seems to happen far away, but one catastrophic effect of climate change is underway right now in the Rocky Mountains. In The Melting World, Chris White travels to Montana to chronicle the work of Dan Fagre, a climate scientist and ecologist, whose work shows that alpine glaciers are vanishing rapidly close to home. For years, Fagre has monitored the ice sheets in Glacier National Park proving that they--and by extension all Rocky Mountain ice--will melt far faster than previously imagined. How long will the ice fields survive? What are the consequences on our environment? The Melting World chronicles the first extinction of a mountain ecosystem in what is expected to be a series of such global calamities as humanity faces the prospect of a world without alpine ice.

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  • Title The Melting World: A Journey Across America's Vanishing Glaciers
  • Author Christopher White
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher St. Martin's Press
  • Publication date 2013-09-03
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Maps
  • ISBN 9780312546281 / 0312546289
  • Weight 1.08 lbs (0.49 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.55 x 6.35 x 1.02 in (24.26 x 16.13 x 2.59 cm)
  • Themes
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Environmental Studies
    • Topical: Ecology
  • Category Nature
  • Library of Congress subjects Ecologists - United States, Rocky Mountains - Environmental conditions
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2013013453
  • Dewey Decimal Code 551.312

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Citations

  • Booklist, 09/15/2013, Page 11
  • Kirkus Reviews, 08/01/2013, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 09/15/2013, Page 103
  • New York Times Book Review, 01/12/2014, Page 26

About the author

CHRISTOPHER WHITE has written several books, including Skipjack: The Story of America's Last Sailing Oystermen, and written for National Geographic, Exploration, and other publications. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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