“[Before It's Gone] melds profiles and scientific data to highlight the human impact of climate change in locales across the country, from Louisiana to Maui.”
—The New York Times Book Review

“As a CBS News correspondent, Jonathan Vigliotti has rushed into fires, floods, and war zones. In Before It’s Gone, he shares what he’s learned from covering the disasters climate change is creating. Like so much of the best reporting, his account is at once vivid and terrifying.”
—Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Under a White Sky and The Sixth Extinction

“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, New York Times bestselling author of The Heat Will Kill You First

“A stunning call to action to save ourselves and all life on the planet.”
—Booklist

“CBS News correspondent Vigliotti debuts with a vivid report... the prose is transportive, and […] stirring portraits ground the climate science. Disquieting and thoroughly reported, this unsettles.”
—Publishers Weekly

“A raw look at the climate disasters wreaking havoc on small-town America [and a] powerful story of surviving, adapting, and making the changes needed to save our home before it’s too late.”
—Kirkus

“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

“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

“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