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Author : Bryan Alexander,Cherry Alexander
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Arctic people
ISBN : OCLC:681341683
Author : Ed Struzik
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780470157664
Winner of the Canadian Science Writers' Association's Science in Society Book Award Banff Mountain Book Award Finalist The City of Edmonton Book Prize Finalist Shortlisted for the Wilfred Eggleston Award for Non-Fiction Climate change's effects are reshaping the Arctic profoundly. Landscapes are being radically transformed, animal habitats are disappearing, and natural resources are being revealed to an energy-starved world. Veteran Arctic journalist Ed Struzik took eleven trips throughout the north to document this rapidly changing land, gaining unprecedented access to scientific expeditions, native communities and security and sovereignty experts. The product of those trips, The Big Thaw is the only book that looks at global warming's wide-ranging impact on the Arctic. Struzik goes into the field with the world's leading polar bear scientist, skis on melting glaciers with glaciologists, travels the Northwest Passage on an aging icebreaker and stalks a carnivorous rogue walrus with an Inuit hunter. His journeys bring him up close to some of the world's most unique animals, from the iconic polar bear to the mysterious narwhal. Struzik melds the vivid stories of his experiences with fascinating explorations of the Arctic's past -- from the alligators and giant tortoises that inhabited the north 55 million years ago, to the 19th century explorers who died searching for the Open Polar Sea -- and its possible future as the center of international struggle, underground smuggling and ecological disaster.
Author : Shelley Wright
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780773596115
The Arctic is ruled by ice. For Inuit, it is a highway, a hunting ground, and the platform on which life is lived. While the international community argues about sovereignty, security, and resource development at the top of the world, the Inuit remind us that they are the original inhabitants of this magnificent place - and that it is undergoing a dangerous transformation. The Arctic ice is melting at an alarming rate and Inuit have become the direct witnesses and messengers of climate change. Through an examination of Inuit history and culture, alongside the experiences of newcomers to the Arctic seeking land, wealth, adventure, and power, Our Ice Is Vanishing describes the legacies of exploration, intervention, and resilience. Combining scientific and legal information with political and individual perspectives, Shelley Wright follows the history of the Canadian presence in the Arctic and shares her own journey in recollections and photographs, presenting the far North as few people have seen it. Climate change is redrawing the boundaries of what Inuit and non-Inuit have learned to expect from our world. Our Ice Is Vanishing demonstrates that we must engage with the knowledge of the Inuit in order to understand and negotiate issues of climate change and sovereignty claims in the region.
Author : Dianne Whelan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1894759389
Whelan became the first woman to accompany the Canadian Rangers on a never-before-patrolled route of the northwestern coast of Ellesmere Island. Here, she shares her personal journey and the global significance of the Canadian High Arctic.
Author : Shelley Wright
Publisher : McGill Queens Univ
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0773544623
A remarkable and moving journey through Arctic history into an uncertain future, highlighting Inuit as well as European and Canadian perspectives.
Author : Fredrik Granath
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 081099464X
Photographs of the Arctic landscape and the animals that live within it provide a testament to the beauty and precariousness of life in northern climes and the impact of climate change on the Arctic ecosystem.
Author : Vivien Gornitz
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780231548892
The Arctic is thawing. In summer, cruise ships sail through the once ice-clogged Northwest Passage, lakes form on top of the Greenland Ice Sheet, and polar bears swim farther and farther in search of waning ice floes. At the opposite end of the world, floating Antarctic ice shelves are shrinking. Mountain glaciers are in retreat worldwide, unleashing flash floods and avalanches. We are on thin ice—and with melting permafrost’s potential to let loose still more greenhouse gases, these changes may be just the beginning. Vanishing Ice is a powerful depiction of the dramatic transformation of the cryosphere—the world of ice and snow—and its consequences for the human world. Delving into the major components of the cryosphere, including ice sheets, valley glaciers, permafrost, and floating ice, Vivien Gornitz gives an up-to-date explanation of key current trends in the decline of ice mass. Drawing on a long-term perspective gained by examining changes in the cryosphere and corresponding variations in sea level over millions of years, she demonstrates the link between thawing ice and sea-level rise to point to the social and economic challenges on the horizon. Gornitz highlights the widespread repercussions of ice loss, which will affect countless people far removed from frozen regions, to explain why the big meltdown matters to us all. Written for all readers and students interested in the science of our changing climate, Vanishing Ice is an accessible and lucid warning of the coming thaw.
Author : Brian Payton
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780385665339
A thrilling account of suffering and survival, The Ice Passage charts an epic quest from desire to destiny. It begins as a mission of mercy. Four and a half years after the disappearance of Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin and his two ships, HMS Investigator sets sail in search of them. Instead of rescuing lost comrades, the Investigator’s officers and crew soon find themselves trapped in their own ordeal, facing starvation, madness, and death on the unknown Polar Sea. If only they can save themselves, they will bring back news of perhaps the greatest maritime achievement of the age: their discovery of the elusive Northwest Passage between Europe and the Orient. In addition to their Great Success, the “Investigators” are the first Europeans to contact the Inuit of the western Arctic archipelago, and the first to record sustained observations of the local wildlife and climate. But the cost of hubris, ignorance, daring, and deceit is soon laid bare. In the face of catastrophe, a desperate rescue plan is made to send away the weakest men to meet their fate on the ice. In a narrative rich with insight and grace, Brian Payton reconstructs the final voyage of the Investigator and the trials of her officers and crew. Drawing on long-forgotten journals, transcripts, and correspondence — some never before published — Payton weaves an astonishing tale of endurance. Along the way, he vividly evokes an Arctic wilderness we now stand to lose.
Author : Ed Struzik
Publisher : Wiley
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 0470932163
Winner of the Canadian Science Writers' Association's Science in Society Book Award Banff Mountain Book Award Finalist The City of Edmonton Book Prize Finalist Shortlisted for the Wilfred Eggleston Award for Non-Fiction Climate change's effects are reshaping the Arctic profoundly. Landscapes are being radically transformed, animal habitats are disappearing, and natural resources are being revealed to an energy-starved world. Veteran Arctic journalist Ed Struzik took eleven trips throughout the north to document this rapidly changing land, gaining unprecedented access to scientific expeditions, native communities and security and sovereignty experts. The product of those trips, The Big Thaw is the only book that looks at global warming's wide-ranging impact on the Arctic. Struzik goes into the field with the world's leading polar bear scientist, skis on melting glaciers with glaciologists, travels the Northwest Passage on an aging icebreaker and stalks a carnivorous rogue walrus with an Inuit hunter. His journeys bring him up close to some of the world's most unique animals, from the iconic polar bear to the mysterious narwhal. Struzik melds the vivid stories of his experiences with fascinating explorations of the Arctic's past -- from the alligators and giant tortoises that inhabited the north 55 million years ago, to the 19th century explorers who died searching for the Open Polar Sea -- and its possible future as the center of international struggle, underground smuggling and ecological disaster.
Author : Anita Lam,Matthew Tegelberg
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030460044
This book compares and contrasts traditional crime scenes with scenes of climate crisis to offer a more expansive definition of crime which includes environmental harm. The authors reconsider what crime scenes have always included and might come to include in the age of the Anthropocene – a new geological era where humans have made enough significant alterations to the global environment to warrant a fundamental rethinking of human-nonhuman relations. In each of the chapters, the authors reframe enduringly popular Arctic scenes, such as iceberg hunting, cruising and polar bear watching, as specific criminal anthroposcenes. By reading climate scenes in this way, the authors aim to productively deploy the representation of crime to make these scenes more engaging to policymakers and ordinary viewers. Criminal Anthroposcenes brings together insights from criminology, climate change communication, and tourism studies in order to study the production and consumption of media representations of Arctic climate change in the hope of to mobilizing more urgent public and policy responses to climate change.
Author : Louis Beyens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9057188562
Het Noordpoolgebied staat volop in de kijker. Afbrokkelende gletsjers, ontdooiend permafrost en de afnemende zee-ijs bedekking zijn gekende beelden uit de media en duidelijke signalen van de intense opwarming van het Arctische ecosysteem. De dramatische afname van het zee-ijs heeft niet alleen gevolgen voor de dieren die er leven en voor de Inuit, maar ook voor het klimaat op de gematigde breedtegraden. Aan de hand van uniek fotomateriaal en onderbouwd door jarenlange wetenschap en ervaring bespreken Louis Beyens en Rinie van Meurs de processen en de impact van klimaatopwarming in het poolgebied.00Het icoon bij uitstek van het unieke zee-ijs ecosysteem is de ijsbeer. 'The Future Polar Bear' kijkt naar het leven, het verleden en de toekomst van deze toppredator. Kan deze superspecialist zich nog aanpassen? Wordt hij bedreigd in zijn voortbestaan of niet? Het boek geeft de nodige basis om de mediaberichten over het Noordpoolgebied, het zee-ijs en de ijsbeer in de juiste context te plaatsen.
Author : P. Buerschaper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0889320594
Colour paintings of arctic animals and birds in their natural habitat. Also includes sketches of the birds and animals and the author's diary on his three-week trip to Bathurst and Ellesmere Islands accompanying Stewart MacDonald in the spring of 1976.
Author : Ed Struzik
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780470737071
"Traveling in time and space across the Arctic, in The big Thaw Ed Struzik describes at first hand the most alarming environmental crisis of our times,. It's a land that Struzik is passionate about, and he writes of its frozen beauty with an elegance of prose not seen since Barry Lopez' Arctic Dreams." - Tim Flannery, author of The Weather Makers "The top of the world is profoundly different than ever before in human history. Climate change is already influencing the lives of the locals, from Inuit to polar bears. But it's poised to make life hard for the rest of us, too. Ed Struzik gives a canny and compelling tour of a world in dangerous and rapid flux." - Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy "An irresistible mix of lyrical writing, adventurous feet-on-the-ground travel, solid reporting and acute observation of the dire things that are happening in the Arctic. We should lock every politician and corporate executive into a room and keep them there until they have read and understood the message Struzik is brining us. It is that important." - Marq De Villiers, author of The End: Natural Disasters, Manmade Castastrophes, and the Future of Human Survival "All-embracing, luminous and provocative, The Big Thaw is a fascinating chronicle of an infinite, threatened Canadian Arctic. Struzik expertly melds past and present into a thought-provoking story about what the current global warming means to Canada and the world. He combines the human and scientific narratives into a wonderful synthesis amplified by his won extensive travels through the North. Everyone interested in the implications of a warming planet should read this remarkable book." - Brian Fagan, archeologist, historian and author of The Great Warming and The Little Ice Age "Ed Struzik, one of those rare journalists who can paddle a canoe and enjoy a meal of whale blubber, has written an important and shocking book that reads like some new genre of adventure and horror story. As the Arctic melts and unravels faster than the global banking system, The Big Thaw raises some stark questions: just what will Canada be without ice and snow? And what is a nation without its dreams?" - Andrew Nikiforuk, author of Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of the Continent "An important book. Urgent, timely, heartfelt." - Will Ferguson, author of Beauty Tips Moose Jaw: Travels in Search of Canada
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1123279119
Author : Tom H. Watkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Photography
ISBN : IND:30000036494445
Photos and text depict migration of the porcupine, North America's largest caribou herd, the wolverine, and the wildflowers that decorate the plains and tundrabeds, glacierfed waterfalls, and the mountain peaks. Good photos of a stark land. No index or bibliography. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR