Author Elizabeth Kolbert discusses her Pulitzer Prize-winning book. The latest selection for the citywide reading program One Book, One Chicago is Elizabeth Kolbert’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book “The ...

Beginnings, it's said, are apt to be shadowy. So it is with this story, which starts with the emergence of a new species maybe two hundred thousand years ago. The species does not yet have a name -- ...

Author Elizabeth Kolbert calls climate change the crucial issue of our time. “Unfortunately, it’s a story that only gets more truer as time goes on, and more urgent and bigger,” she said. Kolbert’s ...

Feeling anxious about the future? Unnerved and fearful? Something big and bad and existential seems like it’s coming down the pike and you can’t quite put your finger on it? Does the Chicago Public ...

Climate change has threatened the existence of several living species, including humankind itself. One author predicts that on the current course, climate change will lead to a mass extinction on ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, the first wave of a worldwide tsunami now known as the “Sixth Extinction” swept across the ...

For those who would prefer to maintain that civil distance from an ever-grimmer reality, Bil Zelman’s book, And Here We Are: Stories From the Sixth Extinction, published by Daylight Books this month, ...

It’s early May of the year 4847, and Willek Muriday, a chief scientist and regional director of a far-reaching biological survey, has just submitted a report on the Cagoan District, the ruins of an ...

In a toxic urban landscape of the future, what strange (and still oddly familiar) animals might have evolved to survive there? A new book, "Beyond the Sixth Extinction: A Post-Apocalyptic Pop-Up" ...

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