The melting world
Subtitle: a journey across America's vanishing glaciers
By: Christopher White
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780312546281
Subjects: Environmental conditions; Climatologists; Biography; Glaciers; Travel; Ecologists; Global warming
Description: Documents concerning evidence of adverse climate change in the Rocky Mountains, where climate scientist and ecologist Dan Fagre reveals how a rapid decline of alpine glaciers is threatening the mountain ecosystem.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-268).
Table of contents: title: Year one: Into the cirque; title: Years two & three: Through the looking glass; title: Year four, week one: The falcon and the falconer; title: Year four, week two: The cascade effect; title: Year four, week three: Fire and ice; title: Year four, week four: Things fall apart; title: Year four, week five: A thousand words; title: Year five, epilogue: The widening gyre.