Ice Climate

 The Little Ice Age tells the story of the turbulent, unpredictable, and often very cold years of modern European history, how climate altered historical events, and what they mean in the context of today’s global warming.  

The unexpected and unexplored ways that ice has transformed a nation—from the foods Americans eat, to the sports they play, to the way they live today—and what its future might look like on a swiftly warming planet. Ice is everywhere: in gas stations, in restaurants, in hospitals, in our...

Eleven-year-old Sydney Cabella has always felt connected to wild and endangered animals. When her family travels to the Arctic islands of Svalbard, Norway, Sydney is thrilled to explore a world of snow, sea ice, and polar bears. Her genius twin sister, Sierra, relies on facts and logic, and is certain animals don’t talk—no matter how much Sydney wishes they could. After a terrifying accident on the sea ice, Sydney discovers an impossible ability: she can hear animals speak—and what they tell her is urgent. The Arctic is melting. Their homes are disappearing. Time is running out.

A “marvelous history”* of medieval Europe, from the bubonic plague and the Papal Schism to the Hundred Years’ War, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Guns of August *Lawrence Wright, author of The End of October, in The Wall Street Journal The fourteenth century reflects two...

Shortlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year award A renowned climate scientist shows how fossil fuel companies have waged a thirty-year campaign to deflect blame and responsibility and delay action on climate change, and offers a battle plan for how we can save the planet. Recycle...

"Listen to this if you want to hear a narrator at the top of his game recount a fascinating--and at times disturbing--true story of adventure, disaster, discovery, cannibalism, and more. Will Damron makes Levy's fascinating account of the Greely (Polar) Expedition come to life...This is a...

A riveting, urgent account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand the rapidly melting ice sheet in Greenland, a dramatic harbinger of climate change “Jon Gertner takes readers to spots few journalists or even explorers have visited. The result is a gripping and important book...

Jean McNeil spent a year as writer-in-residence with the British Antarctic Survey, and four months on the world’s most enigmatic continent. Ice Diaries is the story of McNeil’s years spent in ice, not only in the Antarctic but her subsequent travels to Greenland, Iceland, and Svalbard, culminating in a strange event in Cape Town, South Africa, where she journeyed to make what was to be her final trip to the southernmost continent. In the spirit of the diaries of Antarctic explorers, McNeil mixes travelogue, popular science, and memoir to examine the history of our fascination with ice.

In the spirit of the diaries of Antarctic explorers Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton, McNeil mixes travelogue, popular science, and memoir to examine the history of our fascination with ice. In entering this world, McNeil unexpectedly finds herself confronting her own upbringing in the Maritimes, the lifelong effects of growing up in a cold place, and how the climates of childhood frame our emotional thermodynamics for life.

Transform your daily commute into an immersive deep time adventure where extreme climate shifts test human survival. Picture a world buried under glaciers kilometers thick, where fragile ecosystems evolved against devastating odds. This cinematic exploration of paleontology and Earth science...

Explore prehistoric climate shifts and majestic megafauna in this accessible earth history guide for curious beginners. Perfect for an educational morning commute, this immersive journey transforms complex geology into a thrilling narrative of freezing oceans and shifting continents. Unwind as...

Journey to the frozen edges of our planet to uncover how polar ecosystems and marine glaciers regulate Earth's survival. Perfect for a reflective evening listen or an educational daily commute, this calming exploration transforms complex climate science into an immersive, awe-inspiring auditory...

A thirty-thousand-year history of the relationship between climate and civilization that teaches powerful lessons about how humankind can survive. Man-made climate change may have began in the last two hundred years, but humankind has witnessed many eras of climate instability. The results have...

Uncover the dramatic climate science of deep prehistory as our planet repeatedly freezes into a global icebox. Perfect for an immersive commute or a focused afternoon of learning, this evolutionary journey traces billions of years of shifting temperatures. Watch as a young, alien world...

Brought to you by Penguin. The ice sheets and glaciers that currently cover one-tenth of the planet's land surface are today in grave peril. Locked up within them is a vast proportion of Earth's freshwater - but the ice is fast melting as our climate warms at an accelerating rate. High up in the...

An entertaining pop-sci narrative investigating ice patch archaeology and the role of glaciers in the development of human culture. Glaciers figure prominently in both ancient and contemporary narratives around the world. They inspire art and literature. They spark both fear and awe. And they...

Explore Earth's frozen oceans and uncover how fragile polar ecosystems dictate the future of our global climate. Perfect for your daily commute or an afternoon of focused learning, this immersive scientific expedition transports you to the extreme ends of the globe. Experience the stark beauty...

Spark your family's curiosity with an exciting science and nature journey to explore the wildlife of our polar oceans. Perfect for an engaging school commute or afternoon homeschooling, this hopeful adventure travels to the freezing extremes of the Arctic and Antarctic. Listeners will navigate...

Discover the ultimate true survival story of human history as ancient hunter-gatherers battle the frozen Ice Age world. Perfect for your daily commute, this immersive historical journey transports you directly into the wind-battered shelters of our early ancestors. Rather than dry lists of...

Extinction Horizon meets Contagion in this sequel to 2025's sci-fi thriller Symbiote, where the biological threat has escaped the South Pole and is now wreaking havoc upon Antarctica. The survivors of the South Pole massacre will find that getting off the Antarctic continent may cost them their...