Andrew C. Revkin is an American science and environmental journalist and author . He has written on a wide range of subjects including destruction of the Amazon rain forest , the 2004 Asian tsunami , sustainable development , climate change , and the changing environment around the North Pole . In March 2018 , he joined the staff of the National Geographic Society as strategic adviser for environmental and science journalism . Through 2017 he was senior reporter for climate change at the independent investigative newsroom ProPublica . He was a reporter for '' The New York Times '' from 1995 through 2009 . In 2007 , he created the '' Dot Earth '' environmental blog for '' The Times . '' The blog moved to the Opinion Pages in 2010 and ran through 2016 . From 2010 to 2016 he was also the Senior Fellow for Environmental Understanding at Pace University . He is also a performing songwriter and was a frequent accompanist of Pete Seeger
2004 Asian tsunami
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
Andrew Revkin