This book discusses the problems of melting ice and global warming, describing melting glaciers, effects in Antarctica, effects in the Arctic, the threat to polar bears, and the work of scientists with ice cores.
General Note
Includes index.
Includes glossary.
Content Note
Polar worlds - Icy environments - Life on ice - Ice and glaciers - Evidence of melting ice - Why is the ice melting? - Effects in Antarctica - Effects in the Arctic - Polar bears and ice - Warming and rising seas - Scientists at work - Fact file.