The Ferocious Summer Adelie Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica
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Although it may seem barren, Antarctica is a vital and increasingly threatened part of the Earth's ecosystem.The Ferocious Summeris writer Meredith Hooper's firsthand account of the effects of climate change on this frozen continent. For one summer, Hooper lived and worked with scientists observing the summer population of Adélie penguins nesting at Palmer Station, the smallest of America's three Antarctic research bases. For Hooper, Palmer's penguins offered a way to understand the complex business of the Earth's changing climate. The Antarctic Peninsula was warming fast. Why? What were scientists doing to understand it? The daily lives of Palmer's few thousand Adélie penguins were becoming key evidence, and pieces of the climate change jigsaw began falling into place. Based on daily diaries, acute personal observations, and interviews with Antarctica's international community of researchers, this book is a fascinating and alarming report from the frontlines of global warming.
Book information
ISBN: | 9781553653691 |
Publisher: | D&M Publishers |
Imprint: | Greystone |
Pub date: | 20 Feb 2008 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 320 |
Weight: | 644g |
Height: | 237mm |
Width: | 163mm |
Spine width: | 26mm |