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Andy Revkin

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Andy Revkin

How to Navigate Stormy, Overheated Times

How to foster an adaptive, agile, inquiry-based approach to building a life course — drawing on 35 years of risk-focused reporting.

May 27, 2021

How to Navigate Stormy, Overheated Times

May 27, 2021

Andy Revkin

When a Submarine Sank our Sailboat

By Bill Revkin (written in 2018; published here by his son Andy)

Apr 16, 2021

When a Submarine Sank our Sailboat

Apr 16, 2021

Andy Revkin

Lessons from Lost Cities, Visions of Altered Skies

Authors Elizabeth Kolbert and Annalee Newitz explore past urban ages and future Earth fixes.

Feb 17, 2021

Lessons from Lost Cities, Visions of Altered Skies

Feb 17, 2021

Andy Revkin

Family statement on the passing, at 79, of Rajendra Pachauri, who led the U.N.’s

I reported on the rise, triumphs, tribulations and troubles of Rajendra K. Pachauri, the longest-serving chairman of the Intergovernmental…

Feb 14, 2020

Family statement on the passing, at 79, of Rajendra Pachauri, who led the U.N.’s

Feb 14, 2020

Andy Revkin

A Selfless Parrot and Australia’s Fires

A friend and Earth Institute colleague, Brighton Kaoma, posted a Buddhist parable on Facebook that prompted me to think about the…

Jan 18, 2020

A Selfless Parrot and Australia’s Fires

Jan 18, 2020

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Thank You, Brain — A Stroke as a Gift

Seven years ago, my brain hinted to me that I might be having a stroke.

Jul 4, 2018

Thank You, Brain — A Stroke as a Gift

Jul 4, 2018

Andy Revkin

A Farewell to Ice (a 1995 Climate Warning)

This story of mine, about the rapid retreat of iconic glaciers that long defined life in the Swiss Alps, was originally published in Conde…

Jun 17, 2018

A Farewell to Ice (a 1995 Climate Warning)

Jun 17, 2018

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Bob Kates, a Pioneer in Sustainability Science— A Farewell at 89

I first got to know the self-described “independent scholar” Bob Kates when I was working on the special “Managing Planet Earth” issue of…

Apr 26, 2018

Bob Kates, a Pioneer in Sustainability Science— A Farewell at 89

Apr 26, 2018

Andy Revkin

Humans in a Changing Climate — Science and Solutions

A user-friendly, spin-free, bite-size guide to global warming drawing on three decades of reports from the National Academy of Sciences and…

Jan 10, 2018

Humans in a Changing Climate — Science and Solutions

Jan 10, 2018

Andy Revkin

Troubles in a Dammed Nation

The Times has produced an excellent visual/story package on America’s aging dams, prompted by California’s close scrape as relentless rain…

Feb 23, 2017

Troubles in a Dammed Nation

Feb 23, 2017

Andy Revkin

Andy Revkin

12.6K Followers

Pursuing progress on a finite planet at @columbia @earthinstitute. The rest? Family, friends, books j.mp/revkinbooks, songs j.mp/revkinmusic

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