An Evening with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Kolbert: On The Sixth Extinction

Thursday, September 20, 2018
7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Strayer-Wood Theatre

 

Part of the Aldo Leopold Distinguished Lectures 2018 @ UNI 

A mass extinction event 65 million years ago killed off the dinosaurs, along with three quarters of the species on earth. Today, the world is changing the world so rapidly that scientists fear another extinction event-- the sixth extinction -- is underway. What does this mean for people and for the millions of other species who share our planet?  Free & open to the public.