Unstable Earth: What Happens When an Ice Cap Melts?

Author: Angela Royston
Publisher: Hachette Children's Books
Category: Children's, Nature
Age Group: 12-17
Book Format: Paperback

Shows how interlinked geographical processes can have devastating consequences for people and the planet.

Angela Royston is an extremely well known writer of children's educational books. Her library of titles includes books about space, science, geography, history, social sciences and literacy, just to name a few! Angela regularly visits schools to find out what children are learning and exploring in the classroom, and discusses many of her book titles with children during these visits. Angela is married with children, and lives and works in London.

Table Of Contents

1: Meltdown

2: Why is the ice melting?

3: Melting Arctic

4: No ice at the North Pole: Arctic 2025

5: Melting on Greenland

6: Where the meltwater goes

7: Sea coasts under attack

8: The great floods: Earth 2050

9: A mini Ice Age?

10: The big freeze: North-West Europe 2075

11: The big one - Antarctica

12: Four degrees hotter: Earth 2100

13: Can we survive?

14: Glossary

15: Further reading

16: Index