by Elizabeth Kolbert · Elsinore · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789898864536
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«A Sexta Extinção» is Elizabeth Kolbert's popular science essay, published by Elsinore in paperback (384 pages, in Portuguese).
Kolbert analyses the five great extinctions of the past and warns that the current loss of biodiversity amounts to a sixth, caused by human activity. The author combines fieldwork and interviews with geologists, botanists and marine biologists to explain how climate change and habitat destruction are causing species to disappear.
The work received the Pulitzer Prize, as stated on the cover, and this 2019 edition is the second.
For readers interested in popular science, natural history and the climate crisis.
Elizabeth Kolbert is an American author and journalist. Since 1999, she has been a staff writer for The New Yorker, where she has covered politics and the environment.
