From the underreported frontlines of the climate emergency, an at-turns alarming and awe-inspiring work that follows the harrowing migrations of animals and plants fleeing rising temperatures and drought in their natural habitatsHarrowing journeys of animals and plants―fleeing skyrocketing temperatures and mega-droughts―reported from the frontlines of the greatest migration of species since the Ice AgeAs humans accelerate global warming while laying waste to the environment, animals and plants must flee to the margins: on scattered nature reserves, between major highways, or among urban sprawl. And when even these places become too hot and inhospitable, wildlife is left with only one path to survival: an often-formidable journey toward the poles as they race to find a new home in a warming world. Tropical zones lose their inhabitants, beavers settle in Alaska, and gigantic shoals of fish disappear―just to reappear along foreign coastlines.Award-winning environmental journalist Benjamin
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