Melting World

by Christopher White

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312546289
• ISBN13: 9780312546281
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.6"