Out of the Ice: How Climate Change Is Revealing the Past by Claire Eamer, Drew Shannon
Published by Kids Can Press on September 4th 2018
ISBN: 1771387319
Pages: 32
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Climate change, we hear about it and know its effects. It is not something that is a welcome change to our world. Scientists are fighting it each day. Claire Eamer has written of the one good thing that has come from the snow and ice melting. The earth  is giving up some of its secrets. Who and what lived in the areas that for thousands of years has been covered with glaciers and permafrost.  In the Yukon of Canada, caribou dung 2400 years old has been found and later, artifacts, feathers and broken sticks.

In other parts of the world, receding snow and ice have given up human remains . Humans that lived and died thousands of years ago that now can tell their story .

Mountains that have lured climbers for hundreds of years are giving up their dead, those that challenged the mountain and lost. this has given closure to their families.

Scientists now have a window to how civilization started and how we got to where we are.  The one good thing about climate change!

The text is straightforward yet understandable for young scientists with information boxes for added explanations.

Illustrations and photographs support the text with a glossary, timeline and further info  offered in this slim but informative selection.

Reviewed by Kathy George, Gray Public library, Gray Maine

good for grades 3 and up.