Seth B. Borenstein, national correspondent for Knight Ridder in the Washington, D.C., bureau, covers public health, environment, energy, homeland security and aviation safety.

His work includes a number of stories he broke involving the Columbia space shuttle accident and the investigation into the accident. He has written numerous stories concerning the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and he has produced a package of stories on aviation security, earning him a Columbia Journalism Review laurel praising his coverage, and he has written also on the Washington, D.C., anthrax attacks.

Borenstein has written extensively on the 2001 energy outages and crises, the presidential election technology problems in Florida in 2000, climate change, the rise in asthma among youths, airplane crashes, stem cell research, cloning, and Senator John Glenn's space flight. Before joining Knight Ridder's Washington, D.C., bureau, Borenstein had been a senior writer at The Orlando Sentinel and a specialty writer at The Sun-Sentinel, in Fort Lauderdale. The co-author of three books on science and hurricanes, Borenstein has covered the space program since 1994 and earth sciences since 1989. He was a 2000 Science Writing Fellow at the Marine Biological Lab in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.