Elizabeth Kolbert
Elizabeth Kolbert, a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1999, won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction for “ The Sixth Extinction.” Her other books include “ Life on a Little-Known Planet ” (November, 2025).
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profiles ·
Elizabeth Kolbert on how a scientist known as the “father of global warming” watched his dire predictions for the planet come true.
letter from berlin ·
Elizabeth Kolbert on the trial of Oskar Gröning, the “bookkeeper from Auschwitz,” and on her great-grandmother, who died there.
a reporter at large ·
Elizabeth Kolbert on the possible mass extinction of frogs: These amphibians have been around since before there were dinosaurs. But that could soon change.
comment ·
Comment about rising gas prices and John McCain’s changing campaign strategy. Late last month, Sen. John McCain went up with a new TV ad, “Pump,” …
a reporter at large ·
A Danish community’s victory over carbon emissions.
a reporter at large ·
Canada’s synthetic-fuels boom.
books ·
The Armenian genocide and the politics of silence.
annals of science ·
Elizabeth Kolbert on the effects of global warming on butterflies, other insects, and plant species around the world.
annals of science ·
In the second article of a three-part series, Elizabeth Kolbert writes about the Akkadians, an ancient empire undone by climate shifts—and what its fall portends about the future of the environment.
annals of science ·
In the first article of a three-part series, Elizabeth Kolbert writes about global warming, melting permafrost, and how the Arctic regions are losing ice.
a reporter at large ·
Why hydrogen-powered vehicles are attracting some unlikely supporters.
comment ·
Signed comment about the Bush administration’s dismal environmental record... Many of the mountains of West Virginia have no tops. These were "removed," …
annals of science ·
Does a glacier hold the secret of how civilization began—and how it may end?
profiles ·
Elizabeth Kolbert profiles the incarcerated revolutionary as she approaches parole after twenty years behind bars.
profiles ·
Elizabeth Kolbert’s 2000 Profile of Regis Philbin, America’s beloved host of the game-show “Who Wants to be a Millionaire.”