The sixth extinction :

By: Kolbert, Elizabeth [author.]Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Bloomsbury, 2015Description: 319 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781408851241 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Mass extinctions | Popular Science and MathematicsDDC classification: 576.84 LOC classification: QE721.2.E97Summary: 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.
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Originally published: 2014.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.