The Hidden Life of Ice: Dispatches from a Disappearing World

A pioneering researcher's illuminating account of Arctic ice-its secret history and dire future



Barely inhabited, the Arctic is an alien world to most of us. It also holds critical clues about the future of our planet. In The Hidden Life of Ice, Marco Tedesco invites us to Greenland, where he and his fellow scientists are doggedly researching the dramatic changes afoot. Following the arc of his typical day at work, Tedesco unearths the secrets in the ice-from evidence of long-extinct "polar ...