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The Ice at the End of the World: Greenland's Secret Past and Earth's Perilous Future

Jon Gertner

An urgent account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand the rapidly melting ice sheet in Greenland, a dramatic harbinger of climate change. As Greenland's ice melts and runs off into the sea, it not only threatens to affect hundreds of millions of people who live in coastal areas. It will also have drastic effects on ocean currents, weather systems, economies, and migration patterns

Nature & EnvironmentNature & Environment · medium confidenceNature & Environment81 signalsLlm Classifier: Nature & Environment -> Nature & EnvironmentKeyword Classifier: Nature & Environment -> Nature & EnvironmentTopic Classifier: Climate, Weather & Disaster -> Nature & EnvironmentClimate, Weather & DisasterOceans, Rivers & WaterEnvironment, Conservation & PollutionMigration & Diaspora

Award History

0 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in NonfictionMajor2020LonglistOfficial source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  2. 02 Central places

    • Greenland84%

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    Melting of Greenland’s ice sheet will threaten hundreds of millions in coastal areas and will also disrupt ocean currents, weather systems, economies, and migration patterns.

    Model confidence 78%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    35 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 74%.