Ends of the Earth

Frigid, remote and inhospitable – the polar regions seem far removed from everyday lives.
But these isolated frozen realms shape life on Earth far more than we realise. 

With the planet warming and ice retreating, the poles now sit at the epicenter of the climate crisis. Unique wildlife must adapt or face extinction; Indigenous communities find their homes the site of dramatic environmental upheaval; new battles simmer as untapped mineral and gas resources emerge from beneath the ice. What happens at the poles does not stay in the poles.

Ferrying between penguins and polar bears, Neil Shubin's new book Ends of the Earth reveals the polar regions as never before - meeting the intrepid physicists, climatologists, geologists, biologists and paleontologists working in these extremes. 

Neil Shubin is the author of Some Assembly Required, Your Inner Fish and The Universe Within. He is the Robert R. Bensley Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2011.

Join us online to hear more about his adventures in the polar climate and discover how Ends of the Earth came to be written. 

Link to the webinar will be provided closer to the time of the event. 

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Image banner: Neil Shubin in The Polar Regions  (© Neil Shubin OneWorld Publications)