Elizabeth Kolbert

Elizabeth Kolbert of The New Yorker explained climate change in Field Notes from a Catastrophe, from 2006, by visiting the places and scientists recording it, from Greenland ice sheets to Alaskan permafrost. The Sixth Extinction, which won the 2015 Pulitzer prize for general non-fiction, did the same for biodiversity loss. She keeps the science central and states uncertainties rather than predicting doom.