Description: For most of us, the Arctic is a vast, alien landscape; for research scientist Marco Tedesco, it is his laboratory, his life's work--and the most beautiful, most endangered place on Earth.
Brief description: Alberto Flores d'Arcais was born in Rome and graduated from the University of Rome with a degree in philosophy. He's written for newspapers and magazines since the 1970s and has reported on hard-hitting issues like civil wars, drug trafficking, and the collapses of dictatorships internationally since the 1980s. In 2002, he was a John S. Knight Fellow for Journalism at Stanford University. He now divides his time between New York and Rome.
Review Quotes: Greenland is ground zero for the monumental change sweeping over our world during the Anthropocene. Dr. Tedesco makes a valuable and much-needed contribution toward the dire story unfolding in this great and sometimes enigmatic land.--James Balog, A.D. White Professor at Cornell University and founder of the Extreme Ice Survey and Earth Vision Institute