We are living in the time of the Sixth Mass Extinction. While many details elude us, we know
that a mass extinction is underway from comparisons between background and current …

At this very moment, many of Earth's living kinds are slipping away; sometimes quietly,
sometimes in bright bursts of controversy, chaos, and pain. As a growing cohort of biologists …

Living on a damaged planet challenges who we are and where we live. This timely
anthology calls on twenty eminent humanists and scientists to revitalize curiosity …

Among the most egregious and discouraging problems of conservation is the rapidly
escalating human‐caused species extinction rate.“De‐extinction” refers to the application of …

Martha did not lay the white egg that could have prolonged this story. Neither she nor he
wanted to hatch and then feed the little being who would have emerged—during those …

Earth thought 52 of 365: A city of open houses. Life passes through, like utopia. And yet this
city is real, over a billion years old. The doorway is the species. A species is evolution's …

During the summer of 1940, I was an 11-year-old living with my family in a low-income
apartment in Washington, DC We were within easy walking distance of the National Zoo and …

A multidisciplinary exploration of extinction and what comes next What comes after
extinction? Including both prominent and unusual voices in current debates around the …

There have been five Mass Extinction events in the history of Earth's biodiversity, all caused
by dramatic but natural phenomena. It has been claimed that the Sixth Mass Extinction may …

Since the first edition of this book was published in 1986 the dusky seaside sparrow whose
plight was chronicled in the chapter" Vanishing Species in our own Backyard" is gone, a …