The Melting World: A Journey Across America's Vanishing Glaciers

Global warming usually seems to happen far away, but one catastrophic effect of climate change is underway right now in the Rocky Mountains. In The Melting World, Chris White travels to Montana to chronicle the work of Dan Fagre, a climate scientist and ecologist, whose work shows that alpine glaciers are vanishing rapidly close to home. For years, Fagre has monitored the ice sheets in Glacier National Park proving that they--and by extension all Rocky Mountain ice--will melt far faster than previously imagined. How long will the ice fields survive? What are the consequences on our environment? The Melting World chronicles the first extinction of a mountain ecosystem in what is expected to be a series of such global calamities as humanity faces the prospect of a world without alpine ice.

Author: Christopher White
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 09/03/2013
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 9.55h x 6.35w x 1.02d
ISBN: 9780312546281

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2013
Library Journal 09/15/2013 pg. 103
Booklist 09/15/2013 pg. 11
New York Times Book Review 01/12/2014 pg. 26

About the Author

CHRISTOPHER WHITE has written several books, including Skipjack: The Story of America's Last Sailing Oystermen, and written for National Geographic, Exploration, and other publications. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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