Gaia Vince

Gaia Vince
Gaia Vince at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2023
NationalityBritish
Occupations
  • Journalist
  • broadcaster
  • author
AwardsRoyal Society Winton Prize for Science Books
Websitewww.wanderinggaia.com Edit this at Wikidata

Gaia Vince (born 1973 or 1974)[1] is a freelance British environmental journalist, broadcaster and non-fiction author[2] with British and Australian citizenship.[1] She writes for The Guardian,[3] and, in a column called Smart Planet, for BBC Online.[4] She was previously news editor of Nature[2][3] and online editor of New Scientist.[3]

Her Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made won the 2015 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books, making her the first woman to win the prize outright.[2] The book discusses the Anthropocene, the proposed epoch that begins when human activities started to have a significant global impact on Earth's ecosystems.[5] Her second book, Transcendence: How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time, was published in 2019.[6]

In 2022, she released her third book, Nomad Century, where she argues that the coming decades will inevitably see billions of people migrate due to global heating. Vince asserts that – with the right policies – this migration can be a good thing both for the migrants and the host countries that receive them.[7]

Vince wrote and presented a three-part Channel 4 television series Escape to Costa Rica, first broadcast in April 2017. Filmed in Costa Rica with her partner Nick Pattinson and their two young children, the series explored the country's environmental initiatives, renewable energy and sustainable development.[8]

Vince has, on occasions, presented editions of the BBC Radio 4 programme Inside Science.

  1. ^ a b Cowdrey, Katherine (26 January 2016). "Penguin Press strikes six-figure deal to publish scientist Gaia Vince". The Bookseller. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
  2. ^ a b c Sample, Ian (24 September 2015). "Top science book prize won by woman for first time". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
  3. ^ a b c "Gaia Vince". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
  4. ^ "Smart Planet". BBC Online. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
  5. ^ Borenstein, Seth (14 October 2014). "With their mark on Earth, humans may name era, too". AP News. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
  6. ^ Gaia Vince (7 November 2019). Transcendence: How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-241-28111-6.
  7. ^ Ward, Bob (14 August 2022). "Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval by Gaia Vince review – a world without borders". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
  8. ^ Webb, Claire (30 April 2017). "Escape to Costa Rica: How a tiny country in Central America became an eco-paradise". Radio Times. Retrieved 14 February 2018.