Life on a Little-Known Planet
  • Published: 6 November 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529970050
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320

Life on a Little-Known Planet

Dispatches from a Changing World

  • Elizabeth Kolbert
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From Greenland's melting icesheets to Europe's rewilded plains, Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Kolbert brings together her most urgent reporting and inspiring lessons from the frontline of the climate catastrophe – the defining challenge of our age

‘To be a well-informed citizen of Planet Earth, you need to read Elizabeth Kolbert’ Rolling Stone

Urgent lessons from the frontline of the climate catastrophe – from one of our most important writers on the environment and natural world, author of the seminal The Sixth Extinction and Pulitzer Prize-winner Elizabeth Kolbert.

In Life on a Little-Known Planet, we join Kolbert on the road as she travels across the globe to the places most dramatically affected by global warming, such as Greenland’s rapidly melting ice sheets and Utah’s shrinking lakes. On the way, we encounter newly discovered species and the last living members of others. We learn how to bring animals back from the brink of extinction, and see the power of rewilding up close.

We also meet countless brilliant and dedicated individuals who are steering us towards a better future: scientists harnessing AI to talk to whales; activists lobbying for the rights of nature; and ordinary people making extraordinary changes, like the Samsø islanders leading a completely carbon-neutral life.

Climate change is one of the defining challenges of our age. The natural world is changing profoundly, and the threats to our planet will only grow more serious. Now is the time to deepen our understanding of this incredible world we are in danger of losing – to act, while we still can.
  • Published: 6 November 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529970050
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320
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Praise for Life on a Little-Known Planet

PRAISE FOR ELIZABETH KOLBERT'S PREVIOUS BOOKS Important, necessary, urgent and phenomenally interesting

Helen Macdonald, New York Times, on Under a White Sky

A terrific look at humanity's impact on the Earth

Bill Gates, on The Sixth Extinction

A wonderful book

Barack Obama, on The Sixth Extinction

A meticulously researched and deftly crafted work of journalism that explores some of the biggest challenges of our age

Guardian, on Under a White Sky

[Kolbert is] the premier chronicler of humanity's thoughtless destruction of our habitat

Washington Post

No one rivals Elizabeth Kolbert’s ability to write deeply, empathetically and engagingly about mankind’s relationship with the physical world ... Whether examining the effects of climate change or the growing threat from biodiversity loss, or introducing us to the individuals fighting against the destruction or our planet, she brings curiosity and persistence to the most important issues facing humankind

Chris Goodall, author of What We Need to Do Now