Sixth Extinction An Unnatural History

Name: Sixth Extinction An Unnatural History
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ISBN: 9781250062185

ISBN-10: 1250062187

ISBN-13: 9781250062185

Edition: 2015

Authors: Elizabeth Kolbert

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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…

Book details

List price: $18.99
Copyright year: 2015
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 1/6/2015
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.64" wide x 8.24" long x 0.88" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Elizabeth Kolbert is a staff writer for The New Yorker. Her series on global warming, The Climate of Man, won the American Association for the Advancement of Science's magazine writing award and a National Academies communications award. She is a two-time National Magazine Award winner. She has written several books including Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change and The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History.