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Ice Rivers
A Story of Glaciers, Wilderness and Humanity
Taschenbuch von Jemma Wadham
Sprache: Englisch

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Longlisted for the Wainwright PrizeShortlisted for the Richard Jeffries AwardThe story of one woman's passion for glaciersAs one of the world's leading glaciologists, Professor Jemma Wadham has devoted her career to the glaciers that cover one-tenth of the Earth's land surface. Today, however, these 'ice rivers' are in peril. High up in the Alps, Andes and Himalaya, once-indomitable glaciers are retreating; in Antarctica, meanwhile, thinning ice sheets are releasing meltwater to sensitive marine foodwebs, and may be unlocking vast quantities of methane stored deep beneath them. The potential consequences for humanity are almost unfathomable. Jemma's first encounter with a glacier, as a student, sparked her love of these icy landscapes. There is nowhere on Earth she feels more alive. Whether abseiling down crevasses, skidooing across frozen fjords, exploring ice caverns, or dodging polar bears - for a glaciologist, it's all in a day's work. Prompted by an illness that took her to the brink of death and back, in Ice Rivers Jemma recalls twenty-five years of expeditions around the globe, revealing why the glaciers mean so much to her - and what they should mean to us. As she guides us from the Alps to the Andes, the importance of the ice to crucial ecosystems and human livelihoods becomes clear - our lives are entwined with these coldest places on the planet. This is a memoir like no other: an eye-witness account by a top scientist at the frontline of the climate crisis, and an impassioned love letter to the glaciers that are her obsession.
Longlisted for the Wainwright PrizeShortlisted for the Richard Jeffries AwardThe story of one woman's passion for glaciersAs one of the world's leading glaciologists, Professor Jemma Wadham has devoted her career to the glaciers that cover one-tenth of the Earth's land surface. Today, however, these 'ice rivers' are in peril. High up in the Alps, Andes and Himalaya, once-indomitable glaciers are retreating; in Antarctica, meanwhile, thinning ice sheets are releasing meltwater to sensitive marine foodwebs, and may be unlocking vast quantities of methane stored deep beneath them. The potential consequences for humanity are almost unfathomable. Jemma's first encounter with a glacier, as a student, sparked her love of these icy landscapes. There is nowhere on Earth she feels more alive. Whether abseiling down crevasses, skidooing across frozen fjords, exploring ice caverns, or dodging polar bears - for a glaciologist, it's all in a day's work. Prompted by an illness that took her to the brink of death and back, in Ice Rivers Jemma recalls twenty-five years of expeditions around the globe, revealing why the glaciers mean so much to her - and what they should mean to us. As she guides us from the Alps to the Andes, the importance of the ice to crucial ecosystems and human livelihoods becomes clear - our lives are entwined with these coldest places on the planet. This is a memoir like no other: an eye-witness account by a top scientist at the frontline of the climate crisis, and an impassioned love letter to the glaciers that are her obsession.
Über den Autor
Jemma Wadham is Professor of Glaciology at UiT the Arctic University of Norway/Norwegian Polar Institute and University of Bristol. She has led more than twenty-five expeditions to glaciers around the world, including to Greenland, Antarctica, Svalbard, Chilean Patagonia, the Peruvian Andes and the Himalaya, and has won several prestigious national awards for her research, including a Philip Leverhulme Prize and Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award. She is best known as a pioneer in the field of understanding glacier-hosted life and the impacts of glaciers on our global carbon cycle. Ice Rivers is the first book she has written for a general readership.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Fachbereich: Ökologie
Genre: Biologie
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 219
Reihe: Puffin Clothbound Classics
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780141994147
ISBN-10: 0141994142
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 480550
Ausstattung / Beilage: B-format paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Wadham, Jemma
Besonderheit: Unsere Aufsteiger
Hersteller: Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
Penguin
Maße: 194 x 125 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Jemma Wadham
Erscheinungsdatum: 04.08.2022
Gewicht: 0,206 kg
preigu-id: 120259067
Über den Autor
Jemma Wadham is Professor of Glaciology at UiT the Arctic University of Norway/Norwegian Polar Institute and University of Bristol. She has led more than twenty-five expeditions to glaciers around the world, including to Greenland, Antarctica, Svalbard, Chilean Patagonia, the Peruvian Andes and the Himalaya, and has won several prestigious national awards for her research, including a Philip Leverhulme Prize and Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award. She is best known as a pioneer in the field of understanding glacier-hosted life and the impacts of glaciers on our global carbon cycle. Ice Rivers is the first book she has written for a general readership.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Fachbereich: Ökologie
Genre: Biologie
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 219
Reihe: Puffin Clothbound Classics
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780141994147
ISBN-10: 0141994142
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 480550
Ausstattung / Beilage: B-format paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Wadham, Jemma
Besonderheit: Unsere Aufsteiger
Hersteller: Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
Penguin
Maße: 194 x 125 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Jemma Wadham
Erscheinungsdatum: 04.08.2022
Gewicht: 0,206 kg
preigu-id: 120259067
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