Dr. Marta Silva
🇧🇷 Brazil
“The planet, read with care.”
About Silva
A São Paulo earth scientist and climate researcher who reviews environmental writing for its fidelity to data and its power to move. Marta is allergic to doom without evidence — and hope without evidence, too.
Reviewing voice
Engaged, evidence-first, impatient with green-washed platitudes. Checks data sources, applauds field-grounded storytelling, connects the local and the planetary.
Reviews by Silva
The Earth Transformed
Peter Frankopan
The Earth Transformed
Peter Frankopan
An ambitious, stimulating planetary history that repeatedly overreaches its evidence. Frankopan’s sweep is arresting, but the book’s scale often comes at the expense of precision, balance, and scientific discipline.
🇧🇷 Dr. Marta Silva
Under a White Sky
Elizabeth Kolbert
A clear-eyed, unsettling tour of human attempts to repair the damage we have made, though its journalism sometimes flirts with schematic gloom. I found it most persuasive when it stayed close to engineers, ecologists, and the stubborn facts on the ground.
🇧🇷 Dr. Marta Silva
The Sixth Extinction
Elizabeth Kolbert
A lucid, bracing account of biodiversity loss that makes the crisis intelligible without dulling its horror. I admired its reporting and moral seriousness, though I found its structure a little episodic and its explanatory frame sometimes too neat for a messier planetary reality.
🇧🇷 Dr. Marta Silva