EXPEDITIONS INTO A VANISHING WORLD – How the Melting of the Polar Ice Caps Will Change Our Planet Forever

  • A stirring account of a dwindling habitat and a powerful plea to act now.
  • Climate change is a pressing issue of our time: the Arctic and Antarctic are considered early warning systems for profound climatic changes.
  • Stefanie Arndt is one of the most well-known faces in German polar research.
  • With great photos from the Arctic and Antarctic! 

Researchers give it less than 25 years: by the year 2050, the Arctic ice will have melted, and our planet, which generations have known only with polar caps covered in eternal ice, will change forever. What will be the consequences for mankind of the disappearing ice? How will it affect the climate, the oceans and our weather? Those who really want to understand climate change should cast a glance at the polar regions to recognise what they mean to our climate in Middle Europe and how they change, and therefore also change our daily lives. Stefanie Arndt allows her readers to see the furthest regions of the earth through her eyes. She writes about the deep-seated changes that she was able to observe on her expeditions with the research vessel Polarstern, of her work as a polar researcher, and of the delicate beauty of a disappearing habitat. What seems so far away suddenly moves very close: can we still stop the irreversible effects that the melting of the polar caps would bring with it? And if so, how?

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  • Publisher: Rowohlt Polaris
  • Release: 16.08.2022
  • ISBN: 978-3-499-00866-5
  • 224 Pages
  • Author: Stefanie Arndt
  • Contributed by: Andy Hartard

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EXPEDITIONS INTO A VANISHING WORLD – How the Melting of the Polar Ice Caps Will Change Our Planet Forever
Stefanie Arndt EXPEDITIONS INTO A VANISHING WORLD – How the Melting of the Polar Ice Caps Will Change Our Planet Forever
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Stefanie Arndt

Stefanie Arndt , born in 1988, studied meteorology in Berlin and Hamburg. As a marine physicist at the Alfred Wegener Institute, she has been researching developments in the Antarctic and the Arctic for more than a decade. When she is not analysing the results of her expedition into the eternal ice, packing for the next great research trip on board the Polarstern or attending a conference, she tries to spend as much time as possible in the Antarctic, studying snow and ice. “Climate research is adventure, curiosity and acquiring knowledge at the same time. Stefanie Arndt does an amazing job of transmitting this!” Sven Plöger