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The last winter the scientists, adventurers, journeymen, and mavericks trying to save the world

"As the planet warms, winter is shrinking. In the last fifty years, the Northern Hemisphere lost a million square miles of spring snowpack and in the US alone, snow cover has been reduced by 15-30%. On average, winter has shrunk by a month in most northern latitudes. In this deeply researched, beaut...

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Main Author: Fox, Porter (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2021.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Fox, Porter > Travel.
Global warming.
Climatic changes.
Winter.
Environmental monitoring.
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Table of Contents:
  • The Fires : It started in Cougar Flats
  • The bird is sick
  • The transfer of energy
  • Obelisks of time
  • The final questions
  • The Icefield : The law of high latitudes
  • Life and the living dead inside the glacier
  • The enchanted divide
  • The 10,000-year window
  • The Alps : The great melt has arrived
  • The big picture
  • The ice city
  • The lost and found memories office
  • White Earth : A bad omen
  • A brief history of death and survival
  • The lark's foot
  • Nancy Pelosi goes to Swiss camp
  • Club Aurora
  • The world is brutal - be happy you are not dead yet.

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