By Roger Howard

In August 2007, a Russian submarine captured world headlines by planting a rust-free national flag on the Arctic seabed far beneath the North Pole. The aim of the expedition was to assert Russia's legal sovereignty over a region whose importance has only recently started to become apparent as its melting ice has made vast natural resources open to exploitation.

Published: 2009 by Continuum UK

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By Bernard Stonehouse

Arctic atmospheric pollution is now a major international issue. This volume presents the most authoritative review of this increasingly important subject for an audience of both scientists and administrators concerned with worldwide, as well as polar, pollution problems.

Arctic Air Pollution is an edited collection of papers, first presented at a confwerence held at the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge in 1985. Building on foundations established at earlier meetings, this volume examines the problem of arctic air pollution in an integrated, multidisciplinary fashion, with contributions from leading authorities in chemistry, ecology, climatology and epidemiology. To chemists, physicists and climatologists, it presents scientific problems. Ecologists are concerned with environmental threats; medical rsearchers with potential threats to human health. International lawyers and administrators are concerned with the legal implications of pollutants transferred across continents. Overall hangs the major question; can man-made pollution affect the delicate energy balance of the Arctic, and precipitate major climatic changes worldwide?.

Published: 1986 by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England

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By Dave Reay

Climate change is one of the greatest threats that humankind faces in the twenty-first century. The next hundred years could see coastlines and islands submerged, and a surge in heat waves, hurricanes, droughts, floods and therefore in pests, disease, famine and displacement. This book argues that while government and industry dither, we could all cut our personal greenhouse gas emissions by 60 per cent - the level necessary to halt the current trend according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

After summarizing today's state of affairs, scientifically and politically, climatologist Dave Reay explores the climate impact of housing, gardening, food, money, work, transport, and even death. Packed with provocative case studies, calculations and lifestyle comparisons, this entertaining and authoritative book makes the complexities of climatology understandable and challenges readers to rethink their notions of 'doing their bit'. The paperback edition features a new preface from Mark Lynas, author of "High Tide: News From a Warming World.".

Published: 2005 by MacMillan

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By Meredith Hooper

This remarkable book tells the story of Antarctic warming and how scientists are piecing together the jigsaw of causes and impacts, in particular, though a study of the Adélie penguins at Palmer. 'The Ferocious Summer' memorably brings to us all a crucial understanding of what is happening now, to the planet we share.

Published: 2007 by Profile Books Ltd

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By James & Sue Fenton

This booklet is an introduction to the landscapes of polar and other glacial regions. It is an essential guide whether you are visiting in person or travelling from the comfort of your armchair. As well as ice and snow, it also includes many periglacial features - those occurring in the ice-free areas.

Published: 2009 by Culross, Coupar Angus

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By John Kelly

As climate change and the prospect of relentlessly rising sea levels threaten communities around the world, artist and writer John Kelly records this process in words and images. From the high altiplano of Bolivia, through Newfoundland, the Arctic regions of Alaska and Svalbard, to the Baltic and Orkney, he evokes the dramatic natural transformations affecting our planet and their impact on people and landscapes.

Published: 2009 by Signal Books

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By David J C MacKay

We have an addiction to fossil fuels, and it's not sustainable. How can we replace fossil fuels? How can we ensure security of energy supply? How can we solve climate change?

We're often told that "huge amounts of renewable power are available" - wind, wave, tide and so forth. But our current power consumption is also huge! To understand our sustainable energy crisis, we need to know how the one "huge" compares with the other. We need numbers, not adjectives.

This book shows how to estimate the numbers, and what those numbers depend on. Taking the United Kingdom as an example, it asks first "could Britain live on renewable energy resources alone?" and second "how can a country like Britain make a realistic post-fossil-fuel energy plane that adds up?" It answers these questions in detail, bringing home the size of the changes that society must undergo if sustainable living is to be achieved. It's not going to be easy to make an energy plan that adds up - but it is possible.

Published: 2009 by UIT, Cambridge

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