Before It's Gone

"""Before It's Gone is an account of a TV journalist on the climate beat that reads like it was written by Indiana Jones on Red Bull. Jonathan Vigliotti climbs redwoods, braves wildfires, chases storms, and interviews war refugees in a globe-hopping narrative that captures both the human drama of climate crisis and the challenges a broadcast journalist faces bringing this story to the world in real-time."" --Jeff Goodell, author of New York Times bestseller The Heat Will Kill You First ""With urgency and empathy, Jonathan Vigliotti documents the disastrous consequences of climate change in rural America and the hard work of those determined to hold their communities together. An energetic--and energizing--report from an often-overlooked front line in the climate crisis."" --Michelle Nijhuis, author of Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction ""From animal extinctions and habitat destruction to the collapse of entire human communities, Before It's Gone documents the toll of climate change on people and places around the world, asking us to stop, listen, and take action--while we still can."" --Beth Shapiro, evolutionary molecular biologist and author of Life as We Made It and How to Clone a Mammoth ""Jonathan Vigliotti's work has propelled him into hurricanes, wildfires, crop failures, and tornado-maimed towns across America. In Before It's Gone, the CBS correspondent ably guides us through these scenes of ecological disaster, giving us an intimate and in-the-moment understanding of the world's climate emergency--and leaving little doubt that we're in for much, much worse."" --Earl Swift, New York Times bestselling author of Chesapeake Requiem ""We call it 'global warming, ' but as this fine book makes clear it takes its toll one place at a time--and every one of those places is loved and mourned."" --Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature ""Before It's Gone is a page-turning tour de force. Personal, provocative, empathetic, and ultimately optimistic, this book is the perfect guide to what climate change actually means on the ground, to real people and communities."" --Steve Brusatte, professor and paleontologist at the University of Edinburgh and New York Times bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs"