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Silent Snow
The Slow Poisoning Of The Arctic
by Marla Cone
Paperback, Apr 2006,
256 pages.
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From the book jacket: Traditionally thought of as the last great unspoiled territory on Earth, the Arctic is in reality home to some of the most contaminated people and animals on the planet. Tons of dangerous chemicals and pesticides from the United States, Europe, and Asia are being carried to the Arctic by northbound winds and waves and amplified in the ocean's food web.

Silent Snow is not only a scientific journey, but a personal one. Whether hunting giant bowhead...
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Marla Cone is one of the USA's premier environmental journalists. She has nineteen years of experience covering environmental issues and has twice won a national award for environmental reporting.

In 1962 Rachel Carson warned of the the dangers of DDT in Silent Spring. Now Marla Cone warns of a far more malignant cocktail of poisons that have already reached crisis levels in the Arctic region.

The Arctic is the 'canary in the coal mine' for the rest...
This review is from the April 7, 2006 issue of BookBrowse Recommends. Click here to go to this issue.
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