ELISABETH KOLBERT

Elizabeth Kolbert ganó en 2006 el prestigioso National Magazine Award estadounidense con una serie de artículos sobre el cambio climático que se apartaban de la retórica y los intereses creados para tratar de averiguar que era lo que estaba sucediendo realmente en el mundo. Ahora Kolbert ha ampliado aquellos articulos en La catastrofe que viene, un libro clave del ecologismo contemporaneo que muchos han comparado con el mitico Primavera silenciosa. Uniendo sus vastos conocimientos cientificos a entrevistas a pie de campo con personas que han presenciado como el clima ha variado en los ultimos años, Kolbert ha escrito un libro imprescindible para comprender como el calentamiento global esta afectando a nuestras vidas y que podemos hacer, si es que podemos hacer algo, para evitarlo.

"The Arctic" features an international mix of classic first-person accounts of exploration, literary travelogues and works of cultural history, natural science and fiction about the North Pole... "The Arctic" nos ofrece una mezcla internacional de relatos de exploracion en primera persona, diarios de viaje de calidad literaria y trabajos de historia cultural, historia natural o ciencia ficcion sobre el Polo Norte...

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?CHOSEN BY BILL GATES AND BARACK OBAMA AS A SUMMER READMeet 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?

ONE OF THE SUNDAY TIMES 'BOOKS OF 2021'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?Elizabeth Kolbert has become one of the most important writers on the environment. Now she investigates the immense challenges humanity faces as we scramble to reverse, in a matter of decades, the effects we've had on the atmosphere, the oceans, the world's forests and rivers - on the very topography of the globe.In Under a White Sky, she takes a hard look at the new world we are creating. Along the way, she meets biologists who are trying to preserve the world's rarest fish, which lives in a single tiny pool in the middle of the Mojave desert; engineers who are turning carbon emissions to stone in Iceland; Australian researchers who are trying to develop a 'super coral' that can survive on a hotter globe; and physicists who are contemplating shooting tiny diamonds into the stratosphere to cool the earth, changing the sky from blue to white.One way to look at human civilisation, says Kolbert, is as a ten-thousand-year exercise in defying nature. In The Sixth Extinction, she explored the ways in which our capacity for destruction has reshaped the natural world. Now she examines how the very sorts of interventions that have imperilled our planet are increasingly seen as the only hope for its salvation. By turns inspiring, terrifying and darkly comic, Under a White Sky is an utterly original examination of the challenges we face.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanitys transformative impact on the environment, now asking: After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it?5 ideas for summer readingBill Gates, GatesNotes Important, necessary, urgent and phenomenally interesting.Helen Macdonald, The New York Times That man should have dominion over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth is a prophecy that has hardened into fact. So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that its said we live in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. In Under a White Sky, Elizabeth Kolbert takes a hard look at the new world we are creating. Along the way, she meets biologists who are trying to preserve the worlds rarest fish, which lives in a single tiny pool in the middle of the Mojave; engineers who are turning carbon emissions to stone in Iceland; Australian researchers who are trying to develop a super coral that can survive on a hotter globe; and physicists who are contemplating shooting tiny diamonds into the stratosphere to cool the earth.One way to look at human civilization, says Kolbert, is as a ten-thousand-year exercise in defying nature. In The Sixth Extinction, she explored the ways in which our capacity for destruction has reshaped the natural world. Now she examines how the very sorts of interventions that have imperiled our planet are increasingly seen as the only hope for its salvation. By turns inspiring, terrifying, and darkly comic, Under a White Sky is an utterly original examination of the challenges we face.

The Ends of the Earth is an elegant boxed set of two hardcover books featuring a selection of the greatest writing about the Arctic (edited by Elizabeth Kolbert) and the Antarctic (edited by Francis Spufford).Contributors include Tim Flannery, Ernest Shackleton, Sara Wheeler, Ursula LeGuin, Jack London, Jenny Diski, Beryl Bainbridge and many more.

With twenty six dazzling interwoven pieces one for each letter of the alphabet Pulitzer Prize winning author Elizabeth Kolbert creates an alternately hopeful and alarming manifesto on the climat

WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON FICTION An invaluable contribution to our understanding of present circumstances just as the paradigm shift she calls for is sorely needed Al Gore New York Times Compelling It is a disquieting tale related with rigour and restraint by Kolbert Observer Passionate This is the big story of our age Sunday Times A major book about the future of the world blending natural history field reporting and the history of ideas and into a powerful account of the mass extinction happening todayOver the last half a billion years there have been five mass extinctions of life on earth Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs Elizabeth Kolbert combines brilliant field reporting the history of ideas and the work of geologists botanists and marine biologists to tell the gripping stories of a dozen species including the Panamanian golden frog and the Sumatran rhino some already gone others at the point of vanishing The sixth extinction is likely to be mankind s most lasting legacy and Elizabeth Kolbert s book urgently compels us to rethink the funda

Elizabeth Kolbert, ganadora del premio Pulitzer por La sexta extinción, vuelve para preguntarse: después de hacer tanto daño ¿podemos cambiar la naturaleza, esta vez para salvarla?Que el hombre deberia tener dominio sobre toda la tierra y sobre todo reptil que se arrastra sobre ella es una profecia convertida en realidad. Tan generalizado es el impacto de los humanos en el planeta que hemos categorizado la epoca en que vivimos como una nueva epoca geologica: el Antropoceno.Elizabeth Kolbert se ha convertido en una de las escritoras mas influyentes sobre el medio ambiente. Ahora investiga los inmensos desafios que enfrenta la humanidad mientras luchamos por revertir, en cuestion de decadas, los efectos que hemos ocasionado en la atmosfera, los oceanos, los bosques, los rios y en la topografia misma del globo. En Bajo un cielo blanco Elizabeth Kolbert analiza detenidamente el nuevo mundo que estamos creando y, en el camino, se encuentra con biologos que estan tratando de preservar el pez mas raro del mundo, que vive en una pequeña piscina en medio del desierto de Mojave; ingenieros que estan convirtiendo las emisiones de carbono en piedra en Islandia; investigadores australianos que estan tratando de desarrollar un super coral que pueda sobrevivir en un globo mas caliente; y fisicos que estan contemplando la posibilidad de lanzar pequeños diamantes a la estratosfera para enfriar la tierra, cambiando el color del cielo de azul a blanco.Si en La sexta extincion exploro las formas en que nuestra capacidad de destruccion ha remodelado el mundo natural, ahora examina como el mismo tipo de intervenciones que han puesto en peligro nuestro planeta pueden ser la unica esperanza de salvacion. A la vez inspirador y aterrador, Bajo un cielo blanco es un examen completamente original de los desafios a los que nos enfrentamos, ahora como creadores de una nueva naturaleza.

To be a well informed citizen of Planet Earth you need to read Elizabeth Kolbert ROLLING STONEElizabeth Kolbert one of our most influential writers on the environment and author of the iconic The Sixth Extinction brings together her most urgent reporting and inspiring lessons from the frontlines of the climate catastrophe From Greenland s melting ice sheets to New Zealand s protected mountaintops we join Kolbert on the road as she travels to the places most dramatically affected by climate change revealing a world which is both dangerously fragile and remarkably resilient We encounter newly discovered species and meet the last surviving members of others witness the power of rewilding up close and are reminded of the abounding wonders of our natural world Along the way we also meet countless brilliant individuals who are steering us towards a better future scientists harnessing AI to commune with whales activists successfully lobbying for the rights of nature and ordinary people making extraordinary moves such as the Sams islanders leading completely carbon neutral lives The natural world is changing profoundly and the threats to our planet are only growing more serious Now is the time to deepen our understanding of this incredible world we are in da

Que el hombre debería tener dominio «sobre toda la tierra y sobre todo reptil que se arrastra sobre ella» es una profecía convertida en realidad. Tan generalizado es el impacto de los humanos en el p