Andrew Revkin

Andrew Revkin is an American non-fiction, science and environmental writer and blogger. He is the person behind the New York Times environment blog named Dot Earth.

Biography
Andrew Revkin was born and raised in Rhode Island. He graduated from Brown University with a degree in 1978 with a degree in Biology. Revkin later received a Master's degree in Journalism from Columbia University.

Dot Earth
Created in 2010, Dot Earth is Revkin's environmental blog for New York Times. The blog explores the connections between humans, our surroundings and the earth. Revkin's goal is to investigate the humans' appetite for consumption and the nature's reservoir of resources and on how to balance the two features.

Some of the themes explored on Dot Earth are environmental protection, sustainability and global poverty and inequality.

Offline Ventures
Early in his career he held senior editor and senior writer positions at Discover Magazine and Science Digest.

From 1995 through 2009, Revkin covered the environment for The New York Times. In 2003, he became the first Times reporter to file stories from the North Pole area and in 2005-6 broke stories about the Bush administration's interference with scientific research, particularly at NASA.

In 2010, he joined Pace University's Academy for Applied Environmental Studies as Senior Fellow for Environmental Understanding.

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."