Elizabeth Kolbert's Book Catching Early Raves

onMar 10, 2006 @ 09:22 PST

New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert’s new book, Field Notes from a Catastrophe, is garnering extremely positive early reviews. Check this in the Seattle Times, which also covers Tim Flannery’s excellent The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth.

As the Times reports, Kolbert will also be in Seattle to discuss the book, at these times:

• At 7:30 p.m. March 23 as part of the Seattle Science Lecture Series. At Seattle’s Town Hall; co-sponsored by the University Book Store (206-634-3400; www.ubookstore.com).

• At 6:30 p.m. May 5 at Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park (206-366-3333; www.thirdplacebooks.com).

By Richard Littlemore

Analysis

Mark Carney’s Pipeline MOU With Danielle Smith Has Been A Disaster

ByMitch Anderson

onMar 5, 2026 @ 12:36 PST

First Nations are furious, environmentalists feel betrayed, oil companies are demanding more, and the clock is ticking.

Series: Mark Carney’s Climate Betrayal

Series: Carney's Climate Betrayal

Telegraph Bidder Daily Mail Cashing in from Oil Industry Events

ByAdam Barnett

onMar 5, 2026 @ 05:31 PST

The Mail’s events business in the Middle East provides a quarter of its revenue. A previous Telegraph bid was rejected over petrostate influence fears.

Series: Defending Democracy from Dirty Money

Series: Defending-UK-Democracy

Opinion

Climate Deniers Expected More Resistance to Trump’s Fossil Fuel Blitz

ByRei Takver

onMar 4, 2026 @ 03:00 PST

‘I’ve never seen anything like this,” longtime denier Marc Morano said recently of Democrats, billionaires, activists and reporters going ‘silent’ on the issue.