Elizabeth Kolbert
Elizabeth Kolbert (born July 6, 1961) is an American author and journalist. Since 1999, she has been a staff writer for ''The New Yorker'', where she has covered politics and the environment.She is the author of six books, including ''The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History''–a ''New York Times'' bestseller and Pulitzer Prize winner–and ''Under a White Sky'''','' which was one of ''The Washington Post''''
Kolbert is a two-time National Magazine Award winner and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her work has appeared in ''The Best American Science and Nature Writing'' and ''The Best American Essays''. She served as a member of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' Science and Security Board from 2017 to 2020.
Kolbert has traveled across the globe, visiting scientists and researchers to discuss global warming and climate change. Her work has taken her to Alaska, Hawaii, Greenland, Australia, and Iceland in the discovery of science and the impacts of human life to the planet.
When visiting Northwestern during an interview, Kolbert was asked what influenced her focus on climate change, Kolbert said this:
I ended up going to Greenland and standing atop 10,000 feet of ice on the Greenland Ice Sheet. It was astonishing and I remember one of the Danish scientists with me saying, 'We’re not picking up a climate change signal here yet, but the physics are impeccable. Climate change is here. There’s no arguing with it.' It was an eye-opening, life-altering experience and led to a three-part series for The New Yorker (“The Climate of Man”) that set me down this path.Provided by Wikipedia
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