“Chronicles of Ice” by Gretel Ehrlich starts out briefly describing what the glacier Perito Moreno, in Argentina, looks and sounds like. Then it describes how glaciers are alive and the constant changes that take place within a glacier. How some glaciers are growing, some receding and how other glaciers do both. There are warm glaciers and cold glaciers, and each one has its own process of growing, melting, and moving. The writer also compares glaciers to a banker, they both have gains and losses. The pollution humans are causing has speed up the melting of many glaciers that serve as a natural air-conditioner for the earth. Even though humans seem to have the best intentions of preserving this planet, it doesn’t seem to be enough to stop the
