As tragic as it is for polar bears to be squeezed out of existence because of the melting Arctic ice, there are other consequences of the rapidly changing landscape. Former biologist and science journalist, Alun Anderson, delves into the complex, and rarely addressed, effects of climate change on the Arctic in his book, After the Ice: Life, Death, and Geopolitics in the New Arctic. I had a chance to talk with the author.

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