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Elizabeth Rush – “The Quickening”

December 9, 2023 by sergneri Leave a Comment

October 23, 2023 I just read Elizabeth Rush’s new book “The Quickening” in which she reports on a research cruise to Thwaites Glacier in 2018/19. Seems the first time the thinning sea ice would let ships get anywhere close was in 2017-2020 so there was some very good data gathered in those years. We are … [Read more…]

Posted in: Climate Change, Content, Environment, Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Feminism, Politics, Science, Sea Stories, the Anthropocene, Thinking about, What I Read Tagged: Amundsen Sea, Antarctic, climate disasters, Elizabeth Rush, Nathaniel B. Palmer, sea ice, sea level rise, ship board narrative, The Quickening, Thwaites Glacier

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