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Elizabeth Kolbert

New York

Staff Writer at The New Yorker

Journalist at Freelance

I'm a New Yorker staff writer and author of "Under a White Sky" + "The Sixth Extinction" and the forthcoming "H is for Hope," out in March.

Articles

  • 1 month ago | businessandamerica.com | Elizabeth Kolbert

    Decisions like this are being made hundreds of times per minute—each day, it’s estimated, more than a million Energy Star-certified products are sold.

  • 1 month ago | newyorker.com | Elizabeth Kolbert

    Imagine the following scenario. You are shopping for a new refrigerator. You find a few models that have the same dimensions as your old fridge. One has an ice maker, which might be convenient. Another has an interior water dispenser, which might also be convenient. A third has an ice maker and, also, the familiar blue Energy Star label. You’re having a hard time keeping all the features straight, so you decide to go with the third, knowing it will save you money on your electricity bills.

  • 1 month ago | nybooks.com | Fintan O’Toole |Elizabeth Kolbert |Jonathan Mingle |Bill McKibben

    The New York Review of Books presents the fourth installment in a series of online events hosted by Fintan O’Toole. New York Review contributors Elizabeth Kolbert, Bill McKibben, and Jonathan Mingle join O’Toole for a conversation on the damage a second Trump administration can bring to already meager efforts to curb global warming. You may view all available recordings in this series on this page.

  • 2 months ago | newyorker.com | Elizabeth Kolbert

    The disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant began on the afternoon of March 11, 2011, when the Tōhoku earthquake, also known as the Great East Japan Earthquake and the Great Sendai Earthquake, struck the island of Honshu. The shock, which registered 9.1 on the Richter scale, was so powerful that it knocked the island eight feet closer to Hawaii and generated a tsunami that sloshed all the way to Antarctica.

  • 2 months ago | newyorker.com | Elizabeth Kolbert

    When President Lyndon Johnson signed the Wilderness Act, on September 3, 1964, he called it one of the “most far-reaching conservation measures” ever approved. The bill established fifty-four wilderness areas, most in the American West, which, together, encompassed more than nine million acres. As the act famously put it, in these areas “the earth and its community of life” were to remain “untrammeled by man.” Homes, roads, cars, and even bicycles would therefore be prohibited.

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Elizabeth Kolbert
Elizabeth Kolbert @ElizKolbert
10 Mar 25

If anyone is still out there, I just want to let you know that I'm over at Bluesky at @elizkolbert.bsky.social. See you there, I hope!

Elizabeth Kolbert
Elizabeth Kolbert @ElizKolbert
22 Jan 25

Many congratulations to this year's winners!

National Book Foundation
National Book Foundation @nationalbook

We’re thrilled to announce the 2025 Science + Literature selected titles, made possible by @SloanPublic and the @SloanFoundation. | @AP https://t.co/PWh2cqSTUz https://t.co/Ts0Q1p4AHV

Elizabeth Kolbert
Elizabeth Kolbert @ElizKolbert
11 Dec 24

RT @YaleE360: Trump pledged to repeal Biden's climate law, but the law is supporting billions of dollars in investments in red districts.…