Andrew Revkin
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| Born | 1956 |
| Occupation | Environmental writer, professor |
| Education | Master's of Journalism |
| Alma mater |
Brown University Columbia University |
| 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 |
| Website | |
| dotearth |
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Andrew C. Revkin is an American science and environmental journalist and author. 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. In December, 2016, he joined the staff of the independent investigative newsroom ProPublica as senior reporter for climate and related issues. He was a reporter for the New York Times from 1995 through 2009 and wrote the Dot Earth environmental blog for The Times' Opinion Pages from 2010 through 2016. From 2010 to 2016 he was also the Senior Fellow for Environmental Understanding at Pace University, He is also a performing songwriter and was a frequent accompanist of Pete Seeger.
Andrew Revkin was born and raised in Rhode Island. He graduated from Brown University in 1978 with a degree in Biology. He later received a Master's in Journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Early in his career he held senior editor and senior writer positions at Discover magazine and Science Digest, respectively.
From 1995 through 2009, Revkin covered the environment for The New York Times. In 2003, he became the first Times reporter to file stories from the North Pole area and in 2005-6 broke stories about the Bush administration's interference with scientific research, particularly at NASA.
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