Elizabeth Kolbert
@ElizKolbertElizabeth Kolbert has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1999. Previously, she worked at the Times, where she wrote the Metro Matters column and served as the paper’s Albany bureau chief. Her three-part series on global warming, “The Climate of Man,” won the 2006 National Magazine Award for Public Interest. In 2010, she received the National Magazine Award for Reviews and Criticism. She is the editor of “The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2009” and the author of “The Prophet of Love: And Other Tales of Power and Deceit,” “Field Notes from a Catastrophe,” and “The Sixth Extinction,” for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction in 2015. She received the Blake-Dodd Prize, from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, in 2017. Her latest book is “H Is for Hope.”
All Work
- Daily Comment
The Supreme Court Looks Set to Deliver Another Blow to the Environment
Two upcoming cases take aim at the government’s power to regulate.
October 20, 2023
- Annals of Nature
Can We Talk to Whales?
Researchers believe that artificial intelligence may allow us to speak to other species.
September 4, 2023
- Comment
The Burning of Maui
The governor called the fires Hawaii’s “largest natural disaster” ever. They would more accurately be labelled an “unnatural disaster.”
August 20, 2023
- Annals of Science
How Plastics Are Poisoning Us
They both release and attract toxic chemicals, and appear everywhere from human placentas to chasms thirty-six thousand feet beneath the sea. Will we ever be rid of them?
June 26, 2023
- Daily Comment
It’s Earth Day—and the News Isn’t Good
New reports show that ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are melting faster than anticipated, and other disasters loom.
April 22, 2023
- Books
Why the Animal Kingdom Is Full of Con Artists
Some crows “cry wolf” to snatch food from their neighbors; some caterpillars trick ants into treating them like queens. What can we learn from beasts that bluff?
March 27, 2023
- Daily Comment
The U.N. Issues a Final Warning on the Climate—and a Plan
The I.P.C.C. report contains no new data; nevertheless, it manages to alarm in new ways.
March 20, 2023
- Daily Comment
Why Did the Biden Administration Approve the Willow Project?
Drilling for more oil in the Alaskan Arctic would be, in the President’s own words, a “big disaster.”
March 13, 2023
- Annals of Science
The Little-Known World of Caterpillars
An entomologist races to find them before they disappear.
March 13, 2023
- Daily Comment
Why S.U.V.s Are Still a Huge Environmental Problem
The world is moving toward heavier cars at a time when it should be doing precisely the reverse.
March 3, 2023
