TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kolbert,Elizabeth
TI  - The sixth extinction: an unnatural history 
SN  - 9781408851241 (pbk.) :
AV  - QE721.2.E97 
U1  - 576.84 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - London
PB  - Bloomsbury
KW  - Mass extinctions
KW  - Popular Science and Mathematics
KW  - ukslc
N1  - Originally published: 2014; Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions of life on Earth. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. Elizabeth Kolbert combines brilliant field reporting, the history of ideas and the work of geologists, botanists and marine biologists to tell the gripping stories of a dozen species - including the Panamanian golden frog and the Sumatran rhino - some already gone, others at the point of vanishing
ER  -