Andrew C. Revkin | |
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| Born | 1956 (age 67–68) |
| Occupation | Environmental writer, professor |
| Education | Brown University (BS) Columbia University (MA) |
| Genre | Science writing |
| Subject | Global warming |
| Notable works | Dot Earth (blog); The Burning Season: The Murder of Chico Mendes and the Fight for the Amazon Rain Forest |
| Notable awards | Guggenheim Fellowship; John Chancellor Award; Feinstone Environmental Award |
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Andrew C. Revkin (born 1956) is an American science and environmental journalist, webcaster, author and educator. He has written on a wide range of subjects including destruction of the Amazon rain forest, the 2004 Asian tsunami, sustainable development, climate change, and the changing environment around the North Pole. From 2019 to 2023 he directed the Initiative on Communication and Sustainability at The Earth Institute of Columbia University.[1] While at Columbia, he launched a video webcast, Sustain What,[2] that seeks solutions to tangled environmental and societal challenges through dialogue. In 2023, the webcast integrated with his Substack dispatch of the same name.[3]
Previously he was strategic adviser for environmental and science journalism at National Geographic Society.[4] Through 2017 he was senior reporter for climate change at the independent investigative newsroom ProPublica.[5] He was a reporter for The New York Times from 1995 through 2009. In 2007, he created the Dot Earth environmental blog for The Times. The blog moved to the Opinion Pages in 2010 and ran through 2016. From 2010 to 2016 he was also the Senior Fellow for Environmental Understanding at Pace University.[6] He is also a performing songwriter and was a frequent accompanist of Pete Seeger.
- ^ "Journalist Andrew Revkin to Head New Communications Initiative". Retrieved 2019-08-10.
- ^ https://www.earth.columbia.edu/videos/channel/sustain-what [bare URL]
- ^ https://revkin.substack.com [bare URL]
- ^ "Award-Winning Writer Andrew Revkin Joins National Geographic Society". Retrieved 2018-06-17.
- ^ Gordy, Cynthia (14 November 2016). "Andrew Revkin to Join ProPublica as Senior Reporter on Climate Change". ProPublica.
- ^ "Andrew C. Revkin", Pace University, 2009. Archived July 10, 2012, at the Wayback Machine Accessed: December 3, 2012.