by Elizabeth Kolbert · Neri Pozza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788854508606
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«La sesta estinzione. Una storia innaturale» is Elizabeth Kolbert's popular science essay, published by Neri Pozza in paperback (336 pages, in Italian).
Kolbert surveys the five great extinctions and argues that human activity is causing a sixth, by destroying ecosystems and altering the atmosphere and oceans. She takes the reader from the Amazon rainforest to the Great Barrier Reef to show how species are disappearing in different parts of the planet.
Italian edition in the I colibrì collection. The original title is The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History.
Recommended for readers interested in biodiversity, natural history, and science journalism.
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.
