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"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. Greenland: a remote, mysterious island five times the size of California but with a population of just 56,000. The ice sheet that covers it is 700 miles wide and 1,500 miles long, and is composed of nearly three quadrillion tons of ice. For the last 150 years, explorers and scientists...
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This classic episode of The Big Picture series produced by the U.S. Army follows army engineers across dangerous wastes of ice and snow as they construct roads stretching deeper and deeper into the Arctic. New problems and new dangers constantly present themselves as snow and ice cover the land and prevent engineers from reaching the dirt, or fill, needed for road building and dangerous, man-killing crevasses are formed. With captivating footage from...
11) The greatest polar expedition of all time: the Arctic mission to the epicenter of climate change
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"A captain's tell-all about the world's largest Arctic expedition--an illuminating account of seafaring adventure, Arctic natural history, and cutting-edge climate science. The book about the Mosaic Expedition: as seen in the documentary film Arctic Drift, Atmospheric scientist Markus Rex recounts the monumental Arctic expedition he captained for one year in this gripping and authoritative book. A groundbreaking step towards understanding the climate...