Peter B. Lord joined the Providence Journal in 1979 and began covering environmental issues such as water pollution, hazardous waste, suburban sprawl and declining biodiversity two years later.

He has traveled to northern Alaska to write about the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, to the Shetland Islands to cover an oil spill, and to Belize, Guatemala and Costa Rica to write about development pressures on forests. In 2002 the U.S. State Department invited Lord to take part in a two-week tour of Brazil, lecturing to journalists and journalism students about environmental journalism.

Lord teaches journalism at the University of Rhode Island and serves as a co-director of the Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Journalism at U.R.I. Until recently he was a board member of the Society of Environmental Journalists, of which he has been a long-time member. While remaining with the Providence Journal, Lord recently returned to school and is working on earning a masters degree in Marine Affairs at the University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography.