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

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Global warming frequently turns out to happen far away, but one catastrophic effect of climate change is underway at the moment within 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 hastily just about 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 up to now imagined. How long will the ice fields continue to exist? What are the effects on our environment? The Melting World chronicles the primary 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.

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