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Elizabeth Kolbert

Fire Salamander

Fungal diseases are surging, threatening species around the world

Environment

Salamanders are dying in Europe, snakes are disappearing in North America, and a fungal disease is threatening bats. What’s going on? Is this just a coincidence that this is all happening at once?

Mount Redoubt eruption

Humanity is the great species killer

Environment

Don’t Mention It: Climate Change

Field Notes

GE PCBs

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The Sixth Extinction

Environment

Some biologists believe that we are now in the midst of what they call ?the sixth extinction??the sixth time in the history of the earth when a devastating mass extinction has occurred. Elizabeth Kolbert joins The Takeaway to explain.

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