The Ferocious Summer: Adelie Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica
Although it may seem barren, Antarctica is a vital -- and increasingly threatened -- part of the Earth's ecosystem. The Ferocious Summer is 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 Adelie 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 li…
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- ISBN: 978-1-55365-369-1
- EAN: 9781553653691
- Produktnummer: 3252472
- Verlag: Greystone
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 299 S.
- Masse: H23.7 cm x B16.3 cm x D2.6 cm 644 g
- Gewicht: 644
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