Life on a little-known planet : dispatches from a changing world / Elizabeth Kolbert.
| Author/creator | Kolbert, Elizabeth author. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication | New York : Crown, 2025. |
| Copyright Date | ©2025 |
| Description | xiv, 300 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, color portraits ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Part one : Creatures great and small. Talk to me: Can artificial intelligence allow us to speak to other species? ; Life on a little-known planet: Profile of entomologist David Wanger, who is racing to find caterpillars before they disappear ; Killing Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle: New Zealand tries to rid itself of invasive species ; Stung: Where have all the bees gone? -- Part two : A sense of place. A song of ice: Greenland is melting ; The lost canyon: Drought is shrinking Lake Powell, revealing a hidden Eden ; The island in the wind: A Danish community goes carbon neutral ; The siege of Miami: As temperatures rise, so, too, will sea levels -- Part three : Big ideas. Testing the waters: Should the natural world have rights ; A new leaf: Could tinkering with photosynthesis prevent a global food crisis? ; Going negative: Can carbon dioxide removal save the world? ; Recall of the wild: Can people re-create nature? -- Part four : All we can save. The catastrophist: Profile of James Hansen, the "father of global warming" ; The weight of the world: Profile of Christiana Figueres, one of the architects of the Paris Agreement ; Mr. Green: Environmentalism's most optimistic guru ; The guru of doo-doo: Profile of Sam Wasser, who uses DNA to fight elephant poaching ; Last words: The race to save Eyak, a dying language. |
| Abstract | "A landmark collection of Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Kolbert's most important pieces about climate change and the natural world "To be a well-informed citizen of Planet Earth," Rolling Stone has advised, "you need to read Elizabeth Kolbert." From her National Magazine Award-winning series The Climate of Man to her Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Sixth Extinction, Kolbert's work has shaped the way we think about the environment in the twenty-first century. Collected in Life on a Little-Known Planet are her most influential and thought-provoking essays. An intrepid reporter and a skillful translator of scientific ideas, Kolbert expertly captures the wonders of nature and paints vivid portraits of the researchers and concerned citizens working to preserve them. She takes readers all around the globe, from an island in Denmark that's succeeded in going carbon neutral, to a community in Florida that voted to give rights to waterways, to the Greenland ice sheet, which is melting in a way that has implications for everyone. We meet a biologist who believes we can talk to whales, an entomologist racing to find rare caterpillars before they disappear, and a climatologist who's considered the "father of global warming," amongst other scientists at the forefront of environmental protection. The threats to our planet that Kolbert has devoted so much of her career to exposing have only grown more serious. Now is the time to deepen our understanding of the world we are in danger of losing"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Issued in other form | Online version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Kolbert, Elizabeth, 1961- Life on a little-known planet First edition New York : Crown, 2025 9798217086078 |
| Genre/form | Informational works. |
| Genre/form | Essays. |
| Genre/form | Documents d'information. |
| LCCN | 2025007005 |
| ISBN | 9798217086061 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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