The Hidden Life of Ice: Dispatches from a Disappearing World

Marco Tedesco is a research professor at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University and adjunct scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). He has been featured in Science and has spoken as an expert on polar regions for the New York Times, the Washington Post, NPR, and others.

Alberto Flores d'Arcais was born in Rome and graduated from the University of Rome with a degree in philosophy. He's written for newspapers and magazines since the 1970s and has reported on hard-hitting issues like civil wars, drug trafficking, and the collapses of dictatorships internationally since the 1980s.

Joel Richards was the kid who did crazy things just to have a good story to tell afterward. On deciding to make his affection his profession, he received a BFA in acting and a BA in English from the University of Utah. He has narrated over 150 audiobooks and continues to tell his original stories to live audiences.

Elizabeth Kolbert has been a staff writer at the New Yorker since 1999. Her journalism has garnered multiple awards, including a 2006 National Academies Communication Award for her three-part series "The Climate of Man," which investigated the consequences of disappearing ice on the planet.