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Richard Preston, best-selling author of The Hot Zone and The Cobra Event, is working on a book about microscopic life forms
...Zhenbing in China in 1996, near the end of a six-year journey around the world to write a book about humanity's environmental future. A 30-year-old economics professor who was liked on sight by virtually everyone he met, Zhenbing was my interpreter during five weeks of travel throughout China. A born storyteller, he often recalled his childhood in a tiny village northwest of Beijing. Like most Chinese peasants of that era, Zhenbing's parents were too poor to buy coal. Instead, in a climate like Boston's, where winter temperatures often plunged below zero, they burned dried...
Mark Hertsgaard's most recent book is Earth Odyssey: Around the World in Search of Our Environmental Future
...relationship between humanity and nature. For it is how humans fit into the natural world that will settle whether Malthus was right or wrong. He was wrong in 1798. But if he had been writing 10,000 years earlier, before agriculture, he would have been right. And were his book being published today, on the brink of the third millennium, he would be more right than wrong. Let me explain...
Niles Eldredge is a paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History. His book The Triumph of Evolution is due out early next year