Elizabeth Kolbert

Elizabeth Kolbert is a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her last book, “Field Notes from a Catastrophe,” (2006), was on global warming.

Articles by Elizabeth Kolbert

Rethinking How We Think About Climate Change

January 26, 2015 — Beyond politics and paralysis lies a way forward—to action.

Excerpt: The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

February 10, 2014 — Writer Elizabeth Kolbert travels the globe investigating evidence that a mass extinction is underway.