The Sixth Extinction is a book that cannot be recommended highly enough. It deals with the most important possible topic, the fate of life on Earth, in a responsible, entertaining, and mind ...

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History By Elizabeth Kolbert Henry Holt, 319 pp. Mary Ann Gwinn Mar 8, 2014 3:52 PM Print ...

In her travels around the globe, Elizabeth Kolbert — a staff writer at The New Yorker whose new book The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History is likely to be one of the most-talked-about non ...

What's more, writes journalist Elizabeth Kolbert in The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, we are not only "witnessing one of the rarest events in life's history, we are also causing it." ...

In The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Elizabeth Kolbert points to a direct, indisputable connection between rising atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and the increasing acidity of oceans. A ...

THE SIXTH EXTINCTION: AN UNNATURAL HISTORY By Elizabeth Kolbert The story Kolbert tells is now familiar in outline to anyone paying attention. What makes her book so powerful—and so woeful ...

One of the main culprits in the sixth extinction, Kolbert says, is climate change, but modern agriculture and a rapidly growing human population have contributed as well. By warming the planet ...

Earlier this year, science writer Elizabeth Kolbert published her book " The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History," and the Smithsonian Channel recently released a new documentary called " Mass ...

AMES, Iowa -- Two-time National Magazine Award winner Elizabeth Kolbert will discuss disappearing and extinct species — the subject of her new book — during a talk at Iowa State University. "The Sixth ...