Science
The Sixth Extinction
Elizabeth Kolbert
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Earth has had five mass extinctions; we are causing the sixth, and Kolbert takes you to the front lines to see it happen.
A field-reported account of the current human-caused mass extinction, visiting sites and species — from Panamanian frogs to Great Barrier Reef coral — that document the loss.
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