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CONTENTS

Timeline—Earth’s History

Prologue: The Dance of the White Caps

1.Melting

2.Between Fire and Ice

3.The First Snow

A Closer Look: The Greenhouse Effect

A Closer Look: Albedo—the Effect of Whiteness

4.In the Realm of the Snow Queen

5.Life beneath the Snow

6.More Than a Hundred Words for Snow

7.Traces of Ice: The Discovery of Our Frozen Past

8.Paradise

9.The Backbone of the Continent

10.The Alps: When the Cryosphere Becomes Dangerous

11.The River Goddess and Her Sisters

12.Toward Niflheim

13.The White Continent

A Closer Look: The Cryosphere Today

14.Laboratory Earth: Life’s Frozen History

15.Children of the Ice

16.Out of Eden

17.When the Ice Returned

18.Thin Ice: What’s Happening to the Cryosphere?

19.The Roof of the World Is Melting

20.Invisible Glaciers and Cryoactivists

21.Frozen Earth

22.Climate Bombs in the Tundra

23.Climate Help from the Animal Kingdom

24.Last Dance? (Is There a Future for the Cryosphere?)

Notes

Index