Explores the importance of Arctic sea ice, and describes the causes and consequences of Arctic ice loss. Highlights solutions to prevent Arctic ice loss. Includes color photographs, sidebars, a glossary, and additional resources.
"The authors describe four climate change impacts--changing chemistry [in the ocean], warming waters, strengthening storms, and rising seas--using the metaphor of the ocean as body to draw parallels between natural systems and human systems"--Back cover.
The author guides readers through some of the places where climatic factors are affecting coastal regions in the United States and presents firsthand accounts from those facing displacement such as a Native American community on the Isle de Jean Charles, and a neighborhood in Pensacola settled by escaped slaves hundreds of years ago.