Under A White Sky Av Elizabeth Kolbert

<p><b>The author of the international bestseller <i>The Sixth Extinction</i> returns to humanity''s transformative impact on the environment, now askin after doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it?</b><br><br>Meet the biologists trying to save the world''s rarest fish; the engineers who are turning carbon emissions to stone; the researchers trying to develop a ''super coral''; and the physicists contemplating shooting tiny diamonds into the stratosphere to cool the earth.<br><br>Elizabeth Kolbert is one of the most important writers on the environment. Here she investigates the immense challenges humanity faces as we scramble to reverse, in a matter of decades, the effects we''ve had on the natural world and asks - can we save the natural world in time?<br><br><b>''Important, necessary, urgent'' Helen MacDonald<br>''Meticulously researched and deftly crafted'' <i>Guardian</i></b></p>