Andrew Revkin

Andrew Revkin has been an environmental journalist with the New York Times since 1995. In 2008, he became the first science reporter to win a John Chancellor Award in journalism from Columbia University. This award is given to a journalist who is not "widely known by the public, but who is highly respected within the profession for the caliber of his or her work." His recent work on global warming and climate change has been the first to win a major journalism award. He has said that "the weird thing about climate change is that there is no smoking gun... We're not shaping our climate in a meaningful way,we're shaping our grandchildren's climate in a meaningful way."

Revkin has also written books on the once and future Arctic, the Amazon, and global warming. He was interviewed by Seed magazine about his book The North Pole was Here, which was published in 2006. He stressed that "the hard thing to convey in print as journalists, and for society to absorb, is that this is truly a century-scale problem."

Two films have been made based in part on his work. The Burning Season, a prize-winning HBO film starring Raul Julia and directed by John Frankenheimer, was based on Revkin's biography of Chico Mendes, the slain defender of the Amazon rain forest. Rock Star, starring Mark Wahlberg and Jennifer Aniston, was based on "A Metal-Head Becomes a Metal-God. Heavy," a 1997 New York Times article by Revkin. The article described how a singer in a Judas Priest tribute band rose to replace his idol in the real band.

External links

• Dot Earth - Revkin's Blog at the New York Times
• Video of Revkin accepting the John Chancellor Award
• "9 Billion People + 1 Planet = ?" Andrew Revkin's interview with Vaclav Smil at the Quantum to Cosmos festival at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.

• New York Times review of "The Burning Season."
• New York Times article that inspired "Rock Star."
• National Public Radio interview with Revkin about the making of "Rock Star."