Under a White Sky
Can we save the natural world in time?
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 h…
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- ISBN: 978-1-78470-916-7
- EAN: 9781784709167
- Produktnummer: 36646603
- Verlag: Random House UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
- Masse: H19.8 cm x B13.0 cm x D2.0 cm 239 g
- Gewicht: 239
Über den Autor
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.
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