Under a White Sky
Can we save the natural world in time?
(Sprache: Englisch)
The author of the international bestseller The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking: after doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it?
Meet the biologists trying to save...
Meet the biologists trying to save...
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The author of the international bestseller The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking: after doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it?Meet the biologists trying to save the world's rarest fish; the engineers who are turning carbon emissions to stone; the researchers trying to develop a 'super coral'; and the physicists contemplating shooting tiny diamonds into the stratosphere to cool the earth.
Elizabeth Kolbert is one of the most important writers on the environment. Here she investigates the immense challenges humanity faces as we scramble to reverse, in a matter of decades, the effects we've had on the natural world and asks - can we save the natural world in time?
'Important, necessary, urgent' Helen MacDonald
'Meticulously researched and deftly crafted' Guardian
Autoren-Porträt von Elizabeth Kolbert
Elizabeth Kolbert is the author of the international bestseller The Sixth Extinction, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize, and Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change. She has been a staff writer at the New Yorker since 1999, and has been awarded the Blake-Dodd Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts, with her husband and children.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Elizabeth Kolbert
- 2022, 256 Seiten, Maße: 12,8 x 19,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: VINTAGE
- ISBN-10: 1784709166
- ISBN-13: 9781784709167
- Erscheinungsdatum: 03.03.2022
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Englisch
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Important, necessary, urgent and phenomenally interesting Helen Macdonald, New York Times
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