Elizabeth Kolbert On The Vanishing Of Species
Inside Aeolus Cave Kolbert and guide visit Aeolus Cave in Vermont, once the region's largest hibernaculum--a place where different species of bats slept through the winter. A fungal disease called white-nose syndrome arrived in the area in the mid-2000s and progressively killed off bats using the cave. Elizabeth Kolbert Elizabeth Kolbert writes about ecological disasters-in-progress with such perception and verve that readers come away wanting more. Al Gore recently described her as "a distinctive and eloquent voice of conscience on issues arising from the extraordinary assault on the ecosphere." As a staff writer at The New Yorker, Kolbert's reporting focused for many years on global warming, work that culminated in 2006's "Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change." In her latest book, "The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History," she takes on an even bigger...