Elizabeth Kolbert
@ElizKolbert
I'm a New Yorker staff writer and author of "Under a White Sky" + "The Sixth Extinction" and the forthcoming "H is for Hope," out in March.
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http://ElizabethKolbert.com 05-09-2013 18:56:14
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Good to see The New York Times covering the ash tree die-off, but seems to me baseball bats are the least of the problem: nytimes.com/2022/10/20/spo…
Devastating and depressing, from Yale Environment 360 e360.yale.edu/features/phant… via Yale Environment 360
The geneticist Svante Pääbo was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine today. Revisit Elizabeth Kolbert on Pääbo’s most ambitious project: sequencing the entire genome of the Neanderthal. nyer.cm/Rv4nnW0
Incredibly honored to receive the Fundacíon BBVA's Biophilia Award for Environmental Communication, joining @Guardianeco and marlowehood:
As at Christiana Figueres put it: “If you don’t understand the threat of #climatechange to developing countries, you cannot lead the world’s top international development institution.” nytimes.com/2022/09/22/cli…
It is truly sobering to think that the world has heated by...
a full 1C
...since the Queen came to the thrown in 1953
Global CO2 emissions:
1953 - 6.6bn tonnes
2021 - 36.4bn tonnes
(calc and chart by Zeke Hausfather)