Field Notes from a Catastophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change
Elizabeth Kolbert's early climate reporting, before The Sixth Extinction made her famous. She travels to melting glaciers, drowning islands, and warming permafrost, building the case with the same calm, devastating clarity that defines all her work.
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The Ends of the Earth: An Anthology of the Finest Writing on the Arctic and Antarctic
Kolbert curates the best polar writing — from the heroic age to the climate crisis. Nansen, Cherry-Garrard, Lopez, and contemporary scientists, all gathered at the poles.