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What is The Sixth Extinction : an Unnatural History about?

A major book about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around, the cataclysm is us. In The Sixth Extinction, two-time winner of the National Magazine Award and New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert draws on the work of scores of researchers in half a dozen disciplines, accompanying many of them into the field: geologists who study deep ocean cores, botanists who follow the tree line as it climbs up the Andes, marine biologists who dive off the Great Barrier Reef. She introduces us to a dozen species, some already gone, others facing extinction, including the Panamian golden frog, staghorn coral, the great auk, and the Sumatran rhino. Through these stories, Kolbert provides a moving account of the disappearances occurring all

Who reads The Sixth Extinction : an Unnatural History?

Author

Elizabeth Kolbert; Henry Holt and Company.; Amazon.com

Publisher

Henry Holt and Company : sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780805092998

Category

science

Subjects

Fiction, Science, Biology

Rating

4.1 / 5 (22,329 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14