
Witness the unfolding environmental catastrophe through Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism. Elizabeth Kolbert reveals how human activity is driving the sixth mass extinction in Earth's history and what it means for our future.
Learn how asteroid impacts and volcanic eruptions caused past extinctions, and why human activity creates an unprecedented threat to biodiversity.
Discover the multiple ways human civilization disrupts ecosystems through warming temperatures, deforestation, ocean acidification, and toxic chemicals.
Follow Kolbert's field research documenting extinction in real-time, from dying coral reefs to vanishing amphibians and disappearing forests.
Understand how the loss of one species creates cascading effects that destabilize entire ecosystems and threaten human survival.
Examine what our role in the sixth extinction means for ethics, conservation efforts, and the future habitability of planet Earth.
Explore the five previous extinction events and learn how the current extinction differs in cause, speed, and scope from anything in Earth's history.
Follow scientific fieldwork documenting species loss happening now across different ecosystems and understand the human activities driving these changes.
Examine what widespread extinction means for ecosystem stability, human survival, and our moral responsibility to other species on Earth.

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