Andrew Revkin

A reporter for the New York Times, Andrew C. Revkin is one of America's most honored science writers. He has spent a quarter century providing ground-breaking coverage of subjects ranging from the Asian tsunami to the assault on the Amazon, from the politics of climate to science at the North Pole. He has been an environment reporter for The New York Times since 1995.

His ongoing coverage of climate change received the 2008 John Chancellor Award for sustained journalistic excellence, and won the inaugural National Academies Communication Award for print journalism, presented by the National Academy of Sciences, the United States' preeminent scientific body. He has twice won the Science Journalism Award of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and, along with other prizes, has won an Investigative Reporters & Editors Award.

He is a pioneer in multimedia journalism, filing audio, video, and award-winning photography along with his stories from far-flung places. With his Dot Earth blog, which Time Magazine calls a "must read," Revkin has become what the magazine says is the "de facto moderator" of the national discourse on global warming.

Revkin has written several books, including The Burning Season, on the murder of Amazon defender Chico Mendes, which was awarded the Sidney Hillman Foundation Book Prize and a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and was made into the HBO film of the same name, which won three Golden Globes and two Emmys. His newest book, and first for younger readers, is The North Pole Was Here: Puzzles and Perils at the Top of the World, on the once and future Arctic. He has a biology degree from Brown University and a master's degree in journalism from Columbia. He has taught at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism and Bard College.

In scraps of spare time, Mr. Revkin is also a performing songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He accompanies Pete Seeger on occasion at regional shows and performs with his own rural-roots band, Uncle Wade. He lives in the Hudson Valley with his wife, who is a science educator, and two sons.