Ice Future

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 “Jon Gertner takes readers to spots few journalists or even explorers have visited. The result is a gripping and important book...

In 2018, lumps of frozen soil, collected from the bottom of the world's first deep ice core and lost for decades, reappeared in Denmark. When geologist Paul Bierman and his team first melted a piece of this unique material, they were shocked to find perfectly preserved leaves, twigs, and moss. That observation led them to a startling discovery: Greenland's ice sheet had melted naturally before, about 400,000 years ago.

The ice is coming. He says he can save her. She has days to decide if she believes him. Jana Keyhoe has spent eight years honoring her parents' dying wish — scanning the stars for help while raising her little brother and pretending the countdown clock on the wall doesn't terrify her. She's not hopeful. She's just not ready to give up. Then a voice appears in her mind — one that didn’t come from Earth. He claims to be answering her father's call for help. He says he has something that could save humanity. All he wants in return is a meeting with the President — and eventually, Jana ...

The Lost Continent: At the edge of the world, an impossible relic from the fables of antiquity has risen from the frozen wastelands of Antarctica. Professor Logan and his exploration team rush to investigate this historic find, but this unique discovery puts their lives in peril when they unearth the remnants of a long-forgotten civilization left buried beneath the ice. Within the twisting labyrinths below the melting glaciers, they uncover an ancient culture which had perished from a mysterious cataclysm. They soon realize it was a polar shift which had caused their destruction, and our ...

An ancient threat buried beneath the ice. A global outbreak no one saw coming. A desperate race to save humanity. When microbiologist Sonny Evans is invited to join a cutting-edge research mission in Antarctica, it feels like the opportunity of a lifetime. The team’s goal: drill into Earth’s oldest ice and unlock secrets frozen for millions of years. What they uncover should have stayed buried. The mission takes a dark turn when a team member collapses—blinded by something no one can explain. The crew returns home, only to watch a mysterious new contagion sweep across the globe. As ...

Packed with Larry Niven and Steven Barnes’s trademark excitement and science-based extrapolation, this thrilling novel introduces readers to Ice Vegas, an extraordinary city of the future powered by nuclear fusion. Carver Reeves is head of security for BALDR, the massive nuclear facility that...

Glaciers figure prominently in both ancient and contemporary narratives around the world. They inspire art and literature. They spark both fear and awe. And they give and take life. In The Age of Melt, environmental journalist Lisa Baril explores the deep-rooted cultural connection between humans and ice through time.

In Once and Future Giants, science writer Sharon Levy digs through the evidence surrounding Pleistocene large animal ("megafauna") extinction events worldwide, showing that understanding this history - and our part in it - is crucial for protecting the elephants, polar bears, and other great creatures at risk today. These surviving relatives of the Ice Age beasts now face an intensified replay of that great die-off, as our species usurps the planet's last wild places while driving a warming trend more extreme than any in mammalian history.

The Quaternary began 2.58 million years ago and is still ongoing. Temperatures dropped and glaciations began. For over 50 years, ocean sediments have shown that we are returning to the ice age. Some of the possible scenarios are presented in this book.

They thought the hard part was surviving. They were wrong. Skylar Sorabella started this journey as a prisoner with nothing to lose. Now she holds the key to saving every life on a dying Earth — and she has three months to get home before it's too late. Returning home should be the easy part. It isn't. With a ship beyond capacity, dwindling food supplies, and three species who have never trusted each other suddenly forced to negotiate their futures, Skylar finds herself doing something she never expected — leading. But the closer they get to Earth, the more she can’t outrun what she ...

Modern military thriller meets hard science fiction in this harrowing narrative where nations face off across the planet and up in space. When climate change pushes the United States to the brink of civil war, China tries to take advantage of the countrywide chaos by launching an assault in force. The Chinese Communist Party finds that the most powerful nation in the world can still defend her title in spite of the deadly domestic disturbances. A cold war sets in, which turns hot again when the terrestrial superpowers clash over the ability to harvest asteroid-bound precious metals in space...

As you read this book, be very afraid of the consequences. The Thwaites Glacier, often called the "Doomsday Glacier," is one of the most concerning features in Antarctica due to its sheer size and the instability that scientists have observed accelerating in recent decades. Located in West Antarctica, Thwaites is roughly the size of Florida and holds enough ice to raise global sea levels by approximately two feet on its own. More alarmingly, it acts as a natural dam holding back a much larger portion of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, meaning its collapse could ultimately contribute to sea ...

From Ice to Heat: A Climate Change Book Exploring Global Warming, Earth’s Climate History, and the Future of Our Planet For over four billion years, Earth’s climate has transformed through powerful natural cycles—glacial advances, warming interglacials, and dramatic atmospheric changes that reshaped life on the planet. These transformations were slow, giving ecosystems time to adapt. But now, that ancient rhythm has been broken. In just over a century, human activity has driven Earth into a state of rapid and unprecedented climate change. The burning of fossil fuels, deforestation, ...

One man’s “curiously thrilling joyride” of travelogue, history, and climatology, across a planet on the brink of cataclysmic transformation. 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...

Bloomsbury presents Sixty Harvests Left by Philip Lymbery, read by Barnaby Edwards. A book of urgency but also of hope, as Lymbery shares solutions to save us' Chris Packham ‘Philip Lymbery pulls no punches in cataloguing the calamitous mistakes we’ve made in our food system, but he has bold...

D-ICE congela il sonno portandoti nel delirio di un mondo dove il cielo è azzurro. TRAMA: 215 lavora come Archivista al Palazzo del Rinnovo in una Milano distopica e grigia dove il culto degli Anunnaki del pianeta Nibiru ha unito religione e scienza. Il compito di un Archivista è quello di collegarsi alla Cloud e monitorizzare i sogni registrati dallo ScanDream perché ritenuti pericolosi e sbagliati. Quando 215 trova delle anomalie, cancella il sogno. Durante l’analisi di un caso, il soggetto indagato sembra frequentare uno strano luogo dove si “spaccia” il D-ICE. 215 non ha dubbi:...

From J.R. Rain, the #1 bestselling author of the Samantha Moon vampire mysteries, comes his latest collection of strange and wonderful tales, including: Skeleton Jim - Skeleton Jim is a successful private investigator in Seattle. He's also a walking, talking skeleton. Vampire vs. Bigfoot - The ultimate hunter just met his match. The Bull - Spider-Man, Superman and Batman have nothing on The Bull...a new kind of superhero. The Prophetic Heart - Adam has a problem: for the past few weeks his heart has been beating louder and louder... and he's about find out why. Zombie App - Tommy and Billy ...

Ebenezer Scrooge and Jacob Marley were once wizards who fought off a spectral invasion. But things went horribly wrong, leaving Scrooge bitter and cruel. Can Jacob and the ghosts save Scrooge, or will he and the city of London fall? A magical version of Charles Dickens's timeless classic.