The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History By Elizabeth Kolbert

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History By Elizabeth Kolbert 
Pulitzer Prize Winner || 10^th Anniversary Edition || Non-Fiction Bestsellers | Popular-Science

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE || ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR || A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER || A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST

The 10th-anniversary edition of the instant classic, The Sixth Extinction, now with a new epilogue. Kolbert blends intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes.
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

“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 rigor and restraint by Kolbert”
- Observer

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 up the Andes, marine biologists who dive off the Great Barrier Reef. She introduces us to a dozen species, some already gone, others facing extinction, including the Panamanian golden frog, staghorn coral, the great auk, and the Sumatran rhino.

“Passionate ... This is the big story of our age”
- Sunday Times

Through these stories, Kolbert provides a moving account of the disappearances occurring all around us and traces the evolution of extinction as concept, from its first articulation by Georges Cuvier in revolutionary Paris up through the present day. 
In the ten years since the book was originally published, evidence of the Sixth Extinction has continued to mount, making its message more urgent than ever.