The Ice at the End of the World
An Epic Journey into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future
by Jon Gertner
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appears in Best Science Books, Science, and History.
Greenland: a remote, mysterious island five times the size of California but with a population of just 56,000. The ice sheet that covers it is 700 miles wide and 1,500 miles long, and is composed of nearly three quadrillion tons of ice. For the last 150 years, explorers and scientists have sought to understand Greenlandat first hoping that it wou...
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