The Ice At The End Of The World An Epic Journey Into Greenlands Buried Past And Our Perilous Future Jon Gertner by Jon Gertner instant download after payment.

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 covers it is 700 miles wide, 1500 miles long, and is composed of nearly three quadrillion tons of ice. For the last 150 years, explorers and scientists have sought to understand Greenland—at first hoping that it would serve as a gateway to the North Pole, and then, later, realizing it contained essential information about our climate. Locked within its vast and frozen white desert are some of the most profound secrets about our planet and its future. Greenland's ice doesn't just tell us where we've been. More urgently, it tells us where we're headed.
In The Ice at the End of the World, Jon Gertner explains how Greenland has evolved from one of the earth's last...