03729cam a2200613 i 4500 23943345 BJBSDDR 20260505181631.0 a|||||r|||| 00| 0 ta 241206s20242014nyuac erb 001 0 eng d 2024409046 1250887313 (paperback) 9781250887313 (paperback) 23943345 (OCoLC)1375543680 YDX eng rda YDX BDX OCLCO OCLCQ OCLCL GK8 SFR OCLCO ZQP SXP WZW OCLCO PZF ORE OCLCQ OCO DLC eng lccopycat QE721.2.E97 K81s 2024 576.8/4 23/eng/20231120 OCoLC Kolbert, Elizabeth, 1961- 48296 The sixth extinction : an unnatural history / Elizabeth Kolbert. 6th extinction Unnatural history 10th anniversary edition. First Holt Paperbacks edition. New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2024. ©2014 334 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier "With a new epilogue" --Cover. Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-318) and index. Prologue -- The sixth extinction -- The mastodon's molars -- The original penguin -- The luck of the ammonites -- Welcome to the Anthropocene -- The sea around us -- Dropping acid -- The forest and the trees -- Islands on dry land -- The new Pangaea -- The rhino gets an ultrasound -- The madness gene -- The thing with feathers -- Epilogue. "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 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 Panamian golden frog, staghorn coral, the great auk, and the Sumatran rhino. 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" --Back cover. Mass extinctions. Extinction (Biology) Environmental disasters. Disasters. Extinctions massives. Extinction (Biologie) Catastrophes écologiques. Catastrophes. man-made disasters. aat disasters. aat Informational works. lcgft Documents d'information. rvmgf 7 cbc copycat 2 ncip 20 y-gencatlg lcc 0 BK llh 127006 127006 0 0 lcc 0 0 APT BJB BJB APT 2026-05-05 0 QE721.2.E97 K81s 2024 00000200075 2026-05-05 18:16:50 1 2026-05-05 BK