Field Notes from a Catastrophe

She expanded it into a still-concise yet richly researched and damning book about climate change: a primer on the greatest challenge facing the world today. 

In the years since, the story has continued to develop; the situation has become more dire, even as our understanding of it grows. 

Now Kolbert returns to the defining book of her career. She'll add a chapter bringing things up to date on the existing text, plus she'll add three new chapters - on ocean acidification, the tar sands, and a Danish town that's gone carbon neutral. 

It will, once again, be a must-read for our moment.

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Elizabeth Kolbert is the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, & Climate Change; The Sixth Extinction, for which she won a Pulitzer Prize, & Under the White Sky: The Nature of the Future. For her work at The New Yorker, where she’s a staff writer, she has received two National Magazine Awards, a National Academies Communication Award, & the Blake-Dodd Prize from the American Academy of Arts & Letters.