Ends of the Earth is shortlisted for the 2025 Royal Society Science Book Prize, supported by the Trivedi Family Foundation.
About the book
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 epicentre 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, 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 brings to life the compelling new science being uncovered at the ends of the earth.
About the author
Neil Shubin is the author of Some Assembly Required (also published by Oneworld), 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.
