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After the ice life, death, and geopolitics in the new Arctic

The Arctic has reacted more quickly and dramatically to global warming than many had anticipated. Scientists are urgently trying to predict just how the Arctic will change and how those changes will in turn affect the rest of the planet. But plenty of other people, driven by profit rather than data,...

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Main Author: Anderson, Alun M.
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Smithsonian Books, c2009.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Arctic regions > Environmental conditions.
Sea ice > Arctic regions.
Arctic regions > Description and travel.
Geopolitics > Arctic regions.
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Table of Contents:
  • The bear on the beach
  • Turn the world on its side
  • People: In an Inuit land
  • Nomads of the Yamal
  • Ice: Adrift on the ice
  • The view from below
  • The lethal mix
  • Borders: Who owns the arctic?
  • The strange case of Svalbard
  • Animals: Trouble at the top
  • The bottom of the web
  • Invaders from the South
  • Oil and ships: The battle for Arctic oil
  • How far can oil go?
  • Too many ships, too soon?
  • Finale: The Arctic's revenge
  • Black and white
  • The future of the Arctic.

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