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after the ice life death and geopolitics in the new arctic
p an eye opening look at the winners and losers in the high stakes story of arctic transformation from nations to natives to animals to the very landscape itself p the arctic like the canary in the coal mine has reacted more quickly and dramatically to global warming than many had anticipated . hundreds of scientists are urgently trying to predict just how the arctic will change and how those changes will in turn affect the rest of the planet . but plenty of other people driven by profit rather than data are interested as well . the riches of the worlds last virgin territory have spurred the reawakening of old geopolitical rivalries . the united states canada russia norway and the danish territory of greenland all control areas around the arctic ocean . we face a new era of oil rigs and drill ships of tankers taking shortcuts from yokohama to rotterdam as well as a potential fight over the arctics treasures . p alongside the winners from an open arctic sea are the many losers from the nomadic reindeer herders of siberia and scandinavia to the inuit hunters of alaska greenland and canada . other creatures that rely on the vast expanses of sea ice including seals birds and whales and the ecosystems within which they live may disappear to be replaced by different creatures . p combining science business politics and adven ture alun anderson takes the reader to the ends of the earth for what may be the last narrative portrait of this rapidly changing land of unparalleled global significance .
hardcover collins 2009 isbn13 9780061579073 isbn10 0061579076
abridged n isbn 13 9780061579073 number in series 1 number of pages 298 publisher harpercollins release date 62135769600000