Error loading page.
Try refreshing the page. If that doesn't work, there may be a network issue, and you can use our self test page to see what's preventing the page from loading.
Learn more about possible network issues or contact support for more help.
Advanced
Title details for Under a White Sky by Elizabeth Kolbert - Wait list

Under a White Sky

by Elizabeth Kolbert
ebook
Read a sample Read a sample

The author of the international bestseller The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking: after doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it?
Meet the biologists trying to save the world's rarest fish; the engineers who are turning carbon emissions to stone; the researchers trying to develop a 'super coral'; and the physicists contemplating shooting tiny diamonds into the stratosphere to cool the earth.
Elizabeth Kolbert is one of the most important writers on the environment. Here she investigates the immense challenges humanity faces as we scramble to reverse, in a matter of decades, the effects we've had on the natural world and asks - can we save the natural world in time?
'Important, necessary, urgent' Helen MacDonald
'Meticulously researched and deftly crafted' Guardian

Expand title description text
Publisher: Random House

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9781473560024
  • Release date: March 4, 2021

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9781473560024
  • File size: 29846 KB
  • Release date: March 4, 2021
Loading
Loading

Formats

OverDrive Read
EPUB ebook

subjects

Nature Science Engineering Nonfiction

Languages

English

The author of the international bestseller The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking: after doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it?
Meet the biologists trying to save the world's rarest fish; the engineers who are turning carbon emissions to stone; the researchers trying to develop a 'super coral'; and the physicists contemplating shooting tiny diamonds into the stratosphere to cool the earth.
Elizabeth Kolbert is one of the most important writers on the environment. Here she investigates the immense challenges humanity faces as we scramble to reverse, in a matter of decades, the effects we've had on the natural world and asks - can we save the natural world in time?
'Important, necessary, urgent' Helen MacDonald
'Meticulously researched and deftly crafted' Guardian

Expand title description text
Nature Science Engineering Nonfiction