Penguin Random House South Africa

Categories: International Non-Fiction, Nature & Natural History, Non-Fiction, Adult
ISBN: 9780141994147
Published: August 2022
Imprint: Penguin
Page Extent: 240
Format: Paperback
RRP 345.00

Ice Rivers

Jemma Wadham

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Longlisted for the Wainwright Prize

Shortlisted for the Richard Jeffries Award

The story of one woman's passion for glaciers

As one of the world's leading glaciologists, Professor Jemma Wadham has devoted her career to the glaciers that cover one-tenth of the Earth's land surface. Today, however, these 'ice rivers' are in peril. High up in the Alps, Andes and Himalaya, once-indomitable glaciers are retreating; in Antarctica, meanwhile, thinning ice sheets are releasing meltwater to sensitive marine foodwebs, and may be unlocking vast quantities of methane stored deep beneath them. The potential consequences for humanity are almost unfathomable.

Jemma's first encounter with a glacier, as a student, sparked her love of these...

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Jemma Wadham

Jemma Wadham

Jemma Wadham is Professor of Glaciology at UiT the Arctic University of Norway/Norwegian Polar Institute and University of Bristol. She has led more than twenty-five expeditions to glaciers around the world, including to Greenland, Antarctica, Svalbard, Chilean Patagonia, the Peruvian Andes and the Himalaya, and has won several prestigious national awards for her research, including a Philip Leverhulme Prize and Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award. She is best known as a pioneer in the field of understanding glacier-hosted life and the impacts of glaciers on our global carbon cycle. Ice Rivers is the first book she has written for a general readership.

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