The ice sheets and glaciers that currently cover one-tenth of the planet's land surface are today in grave peril. Locked up within them is a vast proportion of Earth's freshwater - but the ice is fast melting as our climate warms at an accelerating rate. High up in the Alps, Andes and Himalaya, once-indomitable glaciers are retreating, even dying; meanwhile, in Antarctica, thin...(展开全部)

The ice sheets and glaciers that currently cover one-tenth of the planet's land surface are today in grave peril. Locked up within them is a vast proportion of Earth's freshwater - but the ice is fast melting as our climate warms at an accelerating rate. High up in the Alps, Andes and Himalaya, once-indomitable glaciers are retreating, even dying; meanwhile, in Antarctica, thin...(展开全部)

作者简介： 杰玛·沃德姆（Jemma Wadham），冰川学教授，就职于特罗姆瑟-挪威北极大学挪威极地研究所和布里斯托大学。她曾多次带领探险队前往世界各地的冰川，包括格陵兰岛、南极洲、斯瓦尔巴群岛、巴塔哥尼亚、安第斯山脉和喜马拉雅山脉，并因其研究获得了多项著名的奖项，其中包括菲利普·莱弗休姆奖（Philip Leverhulme Prize）和英国皇家学会沃尔夫森优异奖（Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award）。她是冰川生命体和冰川对全球碳循环影响的研究先驱，而《聆听冰川》则是她给读者写的第一本科普书。

The ice sheets and glaciers that cover one-tenth of Earth’s land surface are in grave peril. High in the Alps, Andes, and Himalaya, once-indomitable glaciers are retreating, even dying. Meanwhile, in Antarctica, thinning glaciers may be unlocking vast quantities of methane stored for millions of years beneath the ice. In Ice Rivers, renowned glaciologist Jemma Wadham offers a s...(展开全部)

作者简介： 杰玛·沃德姆（Jemma Wadham），冰川学教授，就职于特罗姆瑟-挪威北极大学挪威极地研究所和布里斯托大学。她曾多次带领探险队前往世界各地的冰川，包括格陵兰岛、南极洲、斯瓦尔巴群岛、巴塔哥尼亚、安第斯山脉和喜马拉雅山脉，并因其研究获得了多项著名的奖项，其中包括菲利普·莱弗休姆奖（Philip Leverhulme Prize）和英国皇家学会沃尔夫森优异奖（Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award）。她是冰川生命体和冰川对全球碳循环影响的研究先驱，而《聆听冰川》则是她给读者写的第一本科普书。

The ice sheets and glaciers that cover one-tenth of Earth’s land surface are in grave peril. High in the Alps, Andes, and Himalaya, once-indomitable glaciers are retreating, even dying. Meanwhile, in Antarctica, thinning glaciers may be unlocking vast quantities of methane stored for millions of years beneath the ice. In Ice Rivers, renowned glaciologist Jemma Wadham offers a s...(展开全部)

Set in a frozen world that is gradually being devastated by ever-encroaching ice, Anna Kavan's masterwork follows one man's pursuit of a mysterious silver-haired girl to the ends of the earth; to the end of everything.

In this haunting and surreal novel, the narrator and a man known as "the warden" search for an elusive girl in a frozen, post-nuclear, apocalyptic landscape. The country has been invaded and is being governed by a secret organization. There is destruction everywhere: great walls of ice overrun the world in this hallucinatory quest-novel. Acclaimed by Brian Aldiss on its publica...(展开全部)