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#SustainWhat webcaster & 40 years of prize-winning 🌎 journalism, mainly @nytimes revkin.substack.com Social, books, songs: j.mp/revkinlinks

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Andrew Revkin’s Biography

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Andrew Revkin is an award-winning environmental journalism innovator and author who has spent more than 40 years reporting on climate change, mostly for The New York Times. His main outlet since 2020 has been a video webcast and Substack newsletter on sustainability challenges called Sustain What, in which his core premise is that words like sustainability have no meaning until you ask, “Sustain what? For whom? How?” The webcast has reached several million viewers and included more than 1,300 g…

Andrew Revkin’s Journalist Portfolio

An Anthropocene Journey

An Anthropocene Journey

By Andrew C. Revkin, October 2016: My reporting career has taken me from smoldering, fresh-cut roadsides in t…

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My Sustain What Reporting Journey

My Sustain What Reporting Journey

You're flooded with input on issues you care about. But how much is useful? My Sustain What project helps rev…

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Earth to Audience: How Andrew Revkin’s Blog Built a Digital Conversation About Climate Change

Earth to Audience: How Andrew Revkin’s Blog Built a Digital Conversation About Climate Change

Times Insider shares insights into how we work at The New York Times. In this piece, Andrew C. Revkin, The Ti…

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Articles

A Wired Journalist Shows How to Avoid Boosting Musk’s and Trump’s Dodgy “DOGE” Propaganda

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By Andy Revkin, Andrew Revkin
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Andy Revkin · Follow 2 min read · -- Please take time to listen to, and share, the recent Stacey Abrams Assembly Required podcast on Elon Musk’s nearly unfettered access to the digital assets of agencies managing trillions of dollars in government transactions and petabytes of Americans’ personal data.
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Something Trump Can Do to Help Americans Withstand Extreme Temperatures - Cold and Hot

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By Andy Revkin, Andrew Revkin
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Andy Revkin · Follow 2 min read · -- via meteorologist Ryan Maue The center of the United States is facing another record-breaking outbreak of polar air. Two deaths in the extreme Kentucky storms were from hypothermia. The Trump administration is seemingly doing anything it can to wipe away Biden initiatives. Given all of this, I think it’s worth revisiting the case for Cold.gov.
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Join veteran environmental journalist Andy Revkin to examine how…

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By Andrew Revkin
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Join veteran environmental journalist Andy Revkin to examine how protecting today’s biological diversity while fostering smart urbanization and economic development could save room for thriving ecosystems for centuries to come. This was the core conclusion of a provocative 2018 paper, “From Bottleneck to Breakthrough: Urbanization and the Future of Biodiversity Conservation.” How’s the thesis holding up?
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AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award

1985 - Science journalism

Science Digest Magazine cover story on science pointing to the chance a nuclear war could trigger a "nuclear winter."

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Investigative Reporters and Editors Award

1983 - Magazines, investigative reporting

A Science Digest feature tallying hundreds of deaths around the world from exposure - accidental or intentional - to the herbicide Paraquat.

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AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award

2002 - Large Newspapers, Science Reporting

Award given for a string of stories on climate science.

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