Ice Future

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...

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...

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 ...

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.

CO2 levels are rising. Temperatures are rising. Sea levels are rising. But history tells us the climate system is far more complex. Drawing on deep geological records, ice cores, ocean sediments, and long-term climate cycles, this book explores a provocative question that challenges conventional thinking: Could Earth be heading toward a new ice age? From past glacial periods to today’s accelerating changes, Are we Entering the Next Ice Age? takes you on a journey through the planet’s ancient climate rhythms to reveal what may lie ahead – and what it means for humanity’s future.

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.

Discover the astonishing story of Antarctica’s Doomsday Glacier in The Glacier That Could Rewrite the World. This fascinating and knowledge-packed book explores Thwaites Glacier, climate change, Antarctic ice collapse, rising sea levels, global warming, melting glaciers, ocean science, future coastal flooding, climate tipping points, and the hidden dangers beneath Earth’s frozen continent. Learn how scientists are studying one of the most dangerous glaciers on Earth, why West Antarctica matters to humanity’s future, and how the collapse of massive ice sheets could reshape coastlines, ...

Terminal Evolution is a haunting and lyrical chronicle of humanity’s digital ascent—and quiet extinction. Spanning more than two centuries, this speculative odyssey follows a cast of interconnected characters as they usher in each stage of technological transformation: from 1980s desktop computers to 1990s dial-up love, from the intoxicating rise of social media to the seductive promises of AI, virtual reality, neural links, and the final surrender to the Singularity. Told in a mosaic of intimate vignettes, Terminal Evolution is less about machines than it is about us—how we adapt, ...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

This is a book about the one place on Earth that the great powers once agreed to leave alone, and about why that agreement is now under strain. For more than sixty years, Antarctica has been the rarest of things in international affairs: a continent governed not by conquest or commerce but by a treaty that set sovereignty aside and reserved an entire landmass for science and peace. That arrangement was held through the Cold War, through the unipolar decades that followed, and through the early tremors of a new era of rivalry. It is one of the most successful pieces of international ...

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...

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.

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, ...

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 William C. Dietz, the New York Times bestselling author of the America Rising novels, comes RED ICE. A military thriller so believable the story could be ripped from tomorrow’s headlines. World War III is a month old. After sinking the Destroyer USS Stacy Heath, the Chinese invade Tibet...

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:...