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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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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…

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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

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Incredibly honored to receive the Fundacíon BBVA's Biophilia Award for Environmental Communication, joining @Guardianeco and marlowehood:

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António Guterres(@antonioguterres) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The situation at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant remains a cause of grave concern.

Any damage to nuclear infrastructure, whether deliberate or not, could have terrible consequences for people around the planet and far beyond.

The world cannot afford a nuclear catastrophe.

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As at Christiana Figueres put it: “If you don’t understand the threat of to developing countries, you cannot lead the world’s top international development institution.” nytimes.com/2022/09/22/cli…

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Tri-colored bat, decimated by white-nose syndrome, is being listed as endangered. But how do you protect a wild species from a diseases that's in the wild?washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

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The fate of the entire ocean floor probably should not have been left to a secretive, understaffed agency based in Jamaica. But here we go: ecowatch.com/deep-sea-minin…

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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)

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 @hausfath)
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Really good idea. But shouldn't the incentive be bigger? Not having a car at all is a lot more climate-friendly than buying electric. washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

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Wildlife extinctions are all around us. That's why we just launched a groundbreaking interactive map highlighting lost species from all 50 states. Which ones once lived near you? extinctionmap.org

Wildlife extinctions are all around us. That's why we just launched a groundbreaking interactive map highlighting lost species from all 50 states. Which ones once lived near you? extinctionmap.org
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Nuclear power plants are particularly dangerous in times of instability. Probably worth thinking about this when considering whether to build more of them in response to climate change: nytimes.com/live/2022/09/0…

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Let’s stop sleepwalking towards the destruction of our planet by climate change.

Today, it is Pakistan. Tomorrow, it could be your country.

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