Quotes About Kolbert

some 365 billion metric tons of carbon to the atmosphere.

The desolate post-impact sea has been dubbed the "Strangelove ocean.")

Durrant stopped off at a commissary of sorts to pick up a selection of his favorite snacks.

If EVACC is a sort of ark, Griffith becomes its Noah, though one on extended duty, since already he's been at things a good deal longer than forty days.

The name is trademarked

This particular species, though, had never been seen before; indeed, it was so unusual that an entire genus had to be created to accommodate it. It was named Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis—batrachos is Greek for "frog"—or Bd for short.

would be an unprecedented climate for an unprecedented world, where silver carp glisten under a white sky.

One of Crutzen's fellow Nobelists reportedly came home from his lab one night and told his wife

Suci, a Sumatran rhino, lives at the Cincinnati Zoo