The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

Kolbert visits the sites where species are disappearing — the Great Barrier Reef, the Andes cloud forests, a bat cave devastated by fungal disease — and assembles the evidence for the sixth mass extinction in planetary history. The first five had external causes. This one is us, and we are doing it in real time. The Pulitzer was well-earned. The species lost while it was being awarded were not returned.