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319: 1403: 42: 183:. From 2019 to 2023 he directed the Initiative on Communication and Sustainability at The Earth Institute of Columbia University. While at Columbia, he launched a video webcast, Sustain What, that seeks solutions to tangled environmental and societal challenges through dialogue. In 2023, the webcast integrated with his Substack dispatch of the same name. 1032: 1141: 1210: 1158: 1138: 1214: 1162: 680: 311:. He was a member of the "Anthropocene" Working Group from 2010 to 2016. The group is charged by a branch of the International Commission on Stratigraphy with gauging evidence that a formal change in the 307:
Revkin is among those credited with developing the idea that humans, through growing impacts on Earth’s climate and other critical systems, are creating a distinct geological epoch, the
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in 2003 from a research camp set up on sea ice drifting near the North Pole. Scientists erected the sign, then added "was" as currents were pushing the ice several miles a day.
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The blog moved to the Opinion Pages in 2010 and ran through 2016. From 2010 to 2016 he was also the Senior Fellow for Environmental Understanding at
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In 2010, he joined Pace University's Academy for Applied Environmental Studies as Senior Fellow for Environmental Understanding.
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Steffen, W.; Grinevald, J.; Crutzen, P.; McNeill, J. (2011). "The Anthropocene: conceptual and historical perspectives".
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1983 Investigative Reporters and Editors Award, for a magazine article "on the worldwide death toll from misuse of
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Reunion 2008: Retrospective: Alumni Reunion Forum: “Dot Earth: Pursuing Progress on a Finite Planet”
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
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Revkin is a multi-instrumentalist and songwriter who led a Hudson Valley roots ensemble called
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reporter to file stories from the North Pole area and in 2005-6 broke stories about the
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The Burning Season: The Murder of Chico Mendes and the Fight for the Amazon Rain Forest
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The Burning Season: The Murder of Chico Mendes and the Fight for the Amazon Rain Forest
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in 1978 with a degree in Biology. He later received a Master's in Journalism from the
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Previously he was strategic adviser for environmental and science journalism at
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New York Times Climate Change Expert Speaks During Earth Week. 20. April 2016
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National Public Radio interview with Revkin about the making of "Rock Star."
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Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award/Series, 2007-2008, Tufts University.
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Early in his career he held senior editor and senior writer positions at
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Weather: An Illustrated History, from Cloud Atlases to Climate Change
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Andrew Revkin was born and raised in Rhode Island. He graduated from
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Journalist, author, and singer Andrew Revkin examines climate change
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The North Pole Was Here: Puzzles and Perils at the Top of the World
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Exploring the wicked problem of climate change with Andrew Revkin
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between 1996 and 2014 and was a member of Uncle Wade, a blues-
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article by Revkin. The article described how a singer in a
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From 1995 through 2009, Revkin covered the environment for
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https://www.earth.columbia.edu/videos/channel/sustain-what
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Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alumni
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The Human Planet: Earth at the Dawn of the Anthropocene
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The Human Planet: Earth at the Dawn of the Anthropocene
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tribute band rose to replace his idol in the real band.
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The Human Planet: Earth at the Dawn of the Anthropocene
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Video of Revkin accepting the John Chancellor Award
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American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Revkin", Pace University, 2009. 463: 423:(1994), a prize-winning HBO film starring 409: 376:Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast 179:, and the changing environment around the 40: 1499:21st-century American non-fiction writers 1123: 922: 723: 721: 719: 717: 715: 621:, was "A Junior Library Guild selection" 317: 810: 789: 393:. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2004 , 14: 1411: 1056: 712: 596:National Academies Communication Award 549:National Academies Communication Award 509:Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Awards 1351:at the Quantum to Cosmos festival at 1187:. Columbia University. Archived from 852:from the original on 24 December 2009 699: 281:Revkin has also written books on the 1464:Folk musicians from New York (state) 1253: 1132: 1105: 1026: 902:. Union Square + ORM. 20 May 2018. 700:Gordy, Cynthia (14 November 2016). 614:Honorary doctorate, Pace University 486:, featuring guest contributions by 378:. 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Revkin, Andrew

Brown University
BS
Columbia University
MA
Science writing
Global warming
Dot Earth
Guggenheim Fellowship
John Chancellor Award
dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com
Amazon rain forest
2004 Asian tsunami
climate change
North Pole
National Geographic Society
ProPublica
The New York Times
Dot Earth
Pace University
Pete Seeger
Brown University
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Discover
Science Digest
The New York Times
Bush administration
NASA
Anthropocene

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