a starred review in Booklist, where it was called "a must-read handbook for everyone concerned about our planet's future." A review in NPR likened it to "a Greek tragedy." In Nature, Barbara Kiser called it "An eloquent science history, and an urgent eleventh-hour call to save what can be saved."

Losing Earth was published in more than a dozen languages and was named a finalist for the 2020 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing