Author: Andrew Revkin3

Andrew Revkin is the founding director of the new Initiative on Communication and Sustainability at Columbia University’s Earth Institute. There he is building programs, courses, tools and collaborations aimed at bridging gaps between science and society to cut climate risk and spread social and ecological resilience. Revkin has written on climate change for more than 30 years, reporting from the North Pole to the White House, the Amazon rain forest to the Vatican – mostly for The New York Times. He has won the top awards in science journalism multiple times and has written acclaimed books on the history of humanity’s relationship with weather, the changing Arctic, global warming and the assault on the Amazon rain forest, as well as three book chapters on science communication. His 1992 proposition that we’ve entered a “geological age of our own making” got him invited onto the Anthropocene Working Group, the expert team assessing evidence that Earth’s fate is being markedly reshaped by humans. The Golden-Globe-winning HBO film “The Burning Season” was based on Revkin’s biography of slain rain forest defender Chico Mendes. A lifelong musician, he was a frequent accompanist of Pete Seeger and is a performing songwriter. He lives in the Hudson River Valley.

U.N. Pushes to Cut Worldwide Vulnerability to Climate Extremes Through Better Early Warnings

All the satellite tracking of great storms, heat and other climate hazards doesn’t have value if those most in harm’s way aren’t reached in ways that boost resilience.
How a Two-century Megadrought Gap Set Up the West for Its Water and Climate Crisis

A new study further cements how global warming, by drying soils, is raising the odds of megadrought conditions across a swath of the western United States.
Where Would You Set the Planetary ‘Doomsday Clock’ and What’s One Way to Turn it Back?

Today’s Sustain What webcast will include members of the “Doomsday” team and experts who focus on how to manage both foreseeable and unforeseeable threats.
Amid the Marshall Fire’s Urban Ashes, Hints of a Less Combustible Future

An interview with a homeowner whose block survived while others burned reinforces longstanding advice from experts on living in fire-prone landscapes.
After COP26 Cheers and Jeers, Some Hopeful Climate and Energy Undercurrents

Amid cheering and rage as the latest climate talks ended, there are heaps of issues and opportunities to work on in the months and years ahead.
Malala Spurs a COP26 Discussion on Links Between Girls, Learning and Cutting Climate Risk

The Indigenous climate campaigner Xiye Bastida, African futurist Katindi Sivi and a graybeard climate journalist weigh in on girls, education and paths to a cooler climate.
The New York Times Company Should Stop Creating Fossil Fuel Ads

As a former climate-focused writer at the paper, I think it’s time for the Times Company to stop making ads for fossil fuel giants, but not yet for a total ban.
Exxon Beware – Students and a Senator Vow to Demolish Climate Inertia

A cross-generational brainstorm on ways to break fossil-fueled blockades to climate action. Spread care, call out the culpable, price pollution.
When “Code Red” Climate Risk Meets Political Risk, Which Prevails? A Chat with Ian Bremmer

A conversation on the new UN climate-panel warning with a top analyst of the politics of global risk – and a bonus roundtable with IPCC scientists.

U.N. Pushes to Cut Worldwide Vulnerability to Climate Extremes Through Better Early Warnings

All the satellite tracking of great storms, heat and other climate hazards doesn’t have value if those most in harm’s way aren’t reached in ways that boost resilience.
How a Two-century Megadrought Gap Set Up the West for Its Water and Climate Crisis

A new study further cements how global warming, by drying soils, is raising the odds of megadrought conditions across a swath of the western United States.
Where Would You Set the Planetary ‘Doomsday Clock’ and What’s One Way to Turn it Back?

Today’s Sustain What webcast will include members of the “Doomsday” team and experts who focus on how to manage both foreseeable and unforeseeable threats.
Amid the Marshall Fire’s Urban Ashes, Hints of a Less Combustible Future

An interview with a homeowner whose block survived while others burned reinforces longstanding advice from experts on living in fire-prone landscapes.
After COP26 Cheers and Jeers, Some Hopeful Climate and Energy Undercurrents

Amid cheering and rage as the latest climate talks ended, there are heaps of issues and opportunities to work on in the months and years ahead.
Malala Spurs a COP26 Discussion on Links Between Girls, Learning and Cutting Climate Risk

The Indigenous climate campaigner Xiye Bastida, African futurist Katindi Sivi and a graybeard climate journalist weigh in on girls, education and paths to a cooler climate.
The New York Times Company Should Stop Creating Fossil Fuel Ads

As a former climate-focused writer at the paper, I think it’s time for the Times Company to stop making ads for fossil fuel giants, but not yet for a total ban.
Exxon Beware – Students and a Senator Vow to Demolish Climate Inertia

A cross-generational brainstorm on ways to break fossil-fueled blockades to climate action. Spread care, call out the culpable, price pollution.
When “Code Red” Climate Risk Meets Political Risk, Which Prevails? A Chat with Ian Bremmer

A conversation on the new UN climate-panel warning with a top analyst of the politics of global risk – and a bonus roundtable with IPCC scientists.