New Yorker Best Book of the Year

“Exquisite.”—DAVID WALLACE-WELLS “At once an elegy and an exhortation.”—ELIZABETH KOLBERT “A book that goes deeper than any before into the meaning of the climate breakdown for all the rest of creation.”—BILL McKIBBEN “Celebratory and heartbreaking.”—DAVID GEORGE HASKELL
 
The stories we usually tell ourselves about climate change tend to focus on the damage inflicted on human societies by big storms, severe droughts, and rising sea levels. But the most powerful impacts are being and will be felt by the natural world and its myriad species, which are already in the midst of the sixth great extinction. Rising tperatures are fracturing ecosysts that took millions of years to evolve, disrupting the life forms they sustain--and in many cases driving th towards extinction. The natural Eden that humanity inherited is quickly slipping away.
 
Although we can never really know what a creature thinks or feels,The End of Edeninvites the reader to meet wild species on their own terms in a range of ecosysts that span the globe. Combining classic natural history, firsthand reportage, and insights from cutting-edge research, Adam Welz brings us close to species like the moose of Northern Maine, the parrots of Puerto Rico, Namibia's cheetahs and rare fish in Australia as they struggle to survive. The stories are intimate yet expansive and always dramatic.
 
An exquisitely written and deeply researched exploration of wild species reacting to climate breakdown, The End of Eden offers a radical new kind of environmental journalism that connects humans to nature in a more pathetic way than ever before and galvanizes us to act in defense of the natural world before it's too late.