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A pioneering researcher's illuminating account of Arctic ice--its secret history and dire future Barely inhabited, the Arctic is an alien world to most of us. It also holds critical clues about the future of our planet. In The Hidden Life of Ice, Marco Tedesco invites us to Greenland, where he and his fellow scientists are doggedly researching the dramatic changes afoot. Following the arc of his typical day at work, Tedesco unearths the secrets in the ice--from evidence of long-extinct polar camels to the fantastically weird microorganisms living at freezing temperatures in cryoconite holes. Tedesco weaves together the bald facts on climate change with poetic reflections on this endangered landscape, the epic deeds of great Arctic explorers, and the legends of the rare local populations. The Hidden Life of Ice is more than a diatribe on climate--it's a moving tribute to a beautiful place that may be gone too soon.

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Read in an almost hushed tone, his nuanced narration reveals the exquisite silences, freezing temperatures, and harsh winds of one of the planet's largest remaining arctic expanses. Richards smoothly vocalizes this audiobook, by turns paean to solitude, primer on global warming, and compendium of close scientific observations.-- AudioFile Greenland is ground zero for the monumental change sweeping over our world...Dr. Tedesco makes a valuable and much-needed contribution toward the dire story unfolding in this great and sometimes enigmatic land. -- James Balog, A.D. White Professor at Cornell University Imagine a science book that's truly informative but without an intimidating slew of equations, graphs, and references. That book is The Hidden Life of Ice...a beautifully told story that will make you wish you could spend a year alone on the Greenland ice sheet. -- Henry Pollack, professor emeritus at the University of Michigan's department of earth and environmental sciences Narrator Joel Richards admirably handles the complex task of emulating the reverential voice of climate scientist Tedesco as he navigates the vastness of ice-covered Greenland. Read in an almost hushed tone, his nuanced narration reveals the exquisite silences, freezing temperatures, and harsh winds of one of the planet's largest remaining arctic expanses. -- AudioFile

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Marco Tedesco is a research professor at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University and adjunct scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Originally from Italy, he received his Laurea degree and PhD from the University of Naples Federico II and the Italian National Research Council. He went on to join the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center as a professor and became the founder and director of the Cryospheric Processes Laboratory. He has been featured in Science and has spoken as an expert on polar regions for the New York Times, the Washington Post, NPR, and others. Alberto Flores d'Arcais was born in Rome and graduated from the University of Rome with a degree in philosophy. He's written for newspapers and magazines since the 1970s and has reported on hard-hitting issues like civil wars, drug trafficking, and the collapses of dictatorships internationally since the 1980s. He is also well known for his interviews with world leaders and culture icons. In 2002, Alberto Flores d'Arcais was a John S. Knight Fellow for Journalism at Stanford University. He now spends his time between New York and Rome. Elizabeth Kolbert has been a staff writer at the New Yorker since 1999. Her journalism has garnered multiple awards, including a 2006 National Academies Communication Award for her three-part series The Climate of Man, which investigated the consequences of disappearing ice on the planet. Joel Richards was the kid who did crazy things just to have a good story to tell afterward. On deciding to make his affection his profession, he received a BFA in acting and a BA in English from the University of Utah. He has narrated over 300 audiobooks and continues to tell his original stories to live audiences.

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