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

The World

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.