“Everyone interested in the implications of a warming planet should read this remarkable book.” – Brian Fagan, author of The Great Warming and The Little Ice Age

As landscapes transform, animal habitats disappear and natural resources are suddenly revealed to an energy-starved world, the effects of climate change on the Arctic have become undeniable. In The Big Thaw, award-winning journalist Ed Struzik documents these profound environmental. Political and cultural changes, With unprecedented access to scientific expeditions, native communities and security and sovereignty experts, Struzik ventures into the field with the world’s leading polar bead scientist; onto melting glaciers with glaciologists; to national security meeting with high-ranking military personnel; and into the Northwest Passage to stalk a carnivorous rogue walrus with an Inuit hunter. A unique and important book, The Big Thaw is at once intimate and epic, engaging and enlightening, and an essential dispatch from the frontlines of climate change.

Ed Struzik has been called one of Canada’s “pre-eminent modern-day explorers” by Canadian Geographic. He has received more than 30 awards for his writing, including the Science in Society Book Award for The Big Thaw, and he was nominated for the Grantham Prize for Excellent in reporting on the Environment.

“Struzik brings the threat of global warming home with first-person impact & A book of deep import to the country.” – Dan Smith, Toronto Star

“A good place to start when trying to understand how climate change is affecting life in the North, and Canadian responsibilities and sovereignty there.” – Erling Friis-Baastad, Globe ad Mail

“An arresting portrait of how quickly the northern landscape, including every ecological nook and cranberry bog that humans and other species inhabit, is being transformed.” – Margo McCaffrey, Canadian Geographic

“Ed Struzik describes at first hand the most alarming environmental crisis of our times. It’s a land that Struzik is passionate about, and he writes of its frozen beauty with an elegance of prose not seen since Barry Lopez’s Arctic Dreams.” –Tim Flannery, author of The Weather Makers