Andrew Revkin has spent 20 years covering subjects ranging from murder in the Amazon to the anthrax attacks, from tourism and science at the North Pole to global warming. Since 1995, he reported for The New York Times, mainly on environmental issues in their scientific, social and political contexts.

Revkin previously had focused on writing books. His first, The Burning Season (Houghton Mifflin, 1990), chronicles the life of Chico Mendes, the slain Amazon rain forest activist. Revkin also wrote Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast (Abbeville, 1992). The book was the companion volume to the first museum exhibition on climate change, created by the American Museum of Natural History.

He was a senior editor of Discover, a writer at the Los Angeles Times, and a senior writer at Science Digest. He has written for The New Yorker, Conde Nast Traveler, and other magazines. His opinion pieces have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, Newsday, and the Brazilian paper O Globo.

Revkin has won several journalism awards, including two from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2002 and 1984) and an Investigative Reporters & Editors Award (1983). In October 2003, he won the $20,000 National Academies National Academies Keck Futures Initiative award "for his insightful, comprehensive coverage of the complex science and policy issues of global climate change." He has a biology degree from Brown University and a masters in journalism from Columbia. He lives in the Hudson River Valley with his wife and two sons. A songwriter and guitarist, he occasionally accompanies Pete Seeger at regional festivals.