Crown  Life on A Little-Known Planet: Dispatches from a Changing World

From the publisher:
From her National Magazine Award-winning series The Climate of Man to her Pulitzer Prize–winning book The Sixth Extinction, Elizabeth Kolbert's work has shaped the way we think about the environment in the twenty-first century. Collected in Life on a Little-Known Planet are her most influential and thought-provoking essays.

Kolbert expertly captures the wonders of nature and paints vivid portraits of the researchers and concerned citizens working to preserve them. She takes readers all around the globe, from an island in Denmark that's succeeded in going carbon neutral, to a community in Florida that voted to give rights to waterways, to the Greenland ice sheet, which is melting in a way that has implications for everyone. You'll meet a biologist who believes we can talk to whales, an entomologist racing to find rare caterpillars before they disappear, and a climatologist who's considered the "father of global warming," among other scientists at the forefront of environmental protection.