After the Ice: Life, Death, and Geopolitics in the New Arctic

✍ Scribed by Anderson, Alun

• Book ID: 107483859
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 820 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780061942549

✦ Synopsis

An eye-opening look at the winners and losers in the high-stakes story of Arctic transformation, from nations to natives to animals to the very landscape itself

The Arctic--like the canary in the coal mine--has reacted more quickly and dramatically to global warming than many had anticipated. Hundreds of scientists are urgently trying to predict just how the Arctic will change and how those changes will in turn affect the rest of the planet. But plenty of other people, driven by profit rather than data, are interested as well. The riches of the world's last virgin territory have spurred the reawakening of old geopolitical rivalries. The United States, Canada, Russia, Norway, and the Danish territory of Greenland all control areas around the Arctic Ocean. We face a new era of oil rigs and drill ships, of tankers taking shortcuts from Yokohama to Rotterdam, as well as a potential fight over the Arctic's treasures...