The golden toad is an extinct species of true toad that was once abundant in a small, high-altitude region of about 4 square kilometres in an area north of the city of Monteverde, Costa Rica. It was e
The Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve, the golden toad's previous habitat
Elizabeth Kolbert is an American author and journalist. Since 1999, she has been a staff writer for The New Yorker, where she has covered politics and the environment.
Kolbert in 2014
Yale University
Jakobshavn icefjord in West Greenland, one of the places Kolbert visited on her travels
Climeworks, one of the companies Kolbert visited while writing Under a White Sky