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A award-winning author and photographer returns to the Arctic to document the effects of climate change.Forty years ago, author and photographer Jon Waterman took his first paddling journey into the Noatak headwaters in the Alaskan Arctic. In this fully illustrated book, he ventures once again, this time "into the thaw," documenting the changes - both environmental and cultural - wrought by climate change. Sharing this eye-opening adventure with his son, Waterman documents the effects on altered land, wildlife and the Inuit-Inupiat life. A widely published author and photographer, Waterman's narrative alternates between adventure and wilderness memoir and plainly stated natural history of the area. He documents the extraordinary changes he sees, both natural - man-high wild grasses where none should be, tear-drop-shaped landslide thaw slumps--a.k.a. thermokarsts--caused by the melting permafrost -- and manmade -- roads and buildings and pipelines falling crazy aslant as if taken by an earthquake. He describes the journey and his emotions as he witnesses the effects of global warming on one of the places dear to his heart. Waterman has been a scholar of the Arctic since his first trip 40 years ago. The alternating half chapters offer brief descriptions of the natural history of this unique ecosystem, bringing it alive for those unfamiliar.Waterman spends time in the villages as well, with the kindhearted, welcoming people most effected by the Arctic collapse. They let him know what it is like to live amid these melting conditions and how it feels to watch their ago-old culture change.In the end, Waterman offers hope by articulating actions we can all take to slow the thaw and preserve what is left of this remarkable frontier.

Do you really know what's for dinner? The Blue Plate is the perfect dinner companion for food lovers who also care about the planet. Ecologist Mark Easter offers a detailed picture of the impact the foods you love have on the earth. Organized by the ingredients of a typical dinner party, including seafood, salad, bread, chicken, steak, potatoes, and fruit pie with ice cream, each chapter examines the food through the lens of the climate crisis. Gathered like guests around the table, here are the stories of these foods: the soil that grew the lettuce, the farmers and ranchers and orchardists who steward the land, the dairy and farm workers and grocers who labor to bring it to the table. Each chapter reveals the causes and effects of greenhouse gas emissions, as well as the social and environmental impact of out-of-season and ar-from-home demand.What can you do to eat more sustainably? Food lovers everywhere will be happy to know that the answer is not necessarily a plant-based diet. For each food group, Easter offers low-carbon, in-season alternatives that make your favorite foods not only more sustainable but also more delicious.The first step, however, is an understanding of how food is grown, produced, harvested, and shipped. In stories both personal and entertaining, the author offers a full understanding of what's for dinner.