Andrew Revkin

Andrew Revkin with an Atlantic sturgeon

Andrew C. Revkin (* 1956 in Rhode Island ) is an American science journalist for the New York Times .

Life

Andrew Revkin was born and raised in Rhode Island. He graduated from Brown University with a degree in biology in 1978 . He later earned a Masters in Journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism . From 1995 to 2009 he wrote for the print edition of the New York Times , since he runs the Dot Earth - blog on the pages of the New York Times .

Publications

Fonts

• Chico Mendes: Death in the Rainforest , Munich / Leipzig, List, 1990, ISBN 3-471-78544-2
• The North Pole was here: puzzles and perils at the top of the world , Boston, Kingfisher, 2006, ISBN 0-7534-5993-0
• Global warming: understanding the forecast , New York, Abbeville Press, 1992, ISBN 1-55859-310-1
• How to fake a moon landing: exposing the myths of science denial , with Darryl Cunningham , New York, Abrams ComicArts, 2013, ISBN 978-1-4197-0689-9

Films based on his works

Two films were made based on Revkin's works:

• Flame resistance ( The Burning Season ), an HBO movie from 1994 with Raúl Juliá , directed by John Frankenheimer , based on Revkins Biography of Chico Mendes , who was murdered environmental activist who campaigned for the preservation of the Amazon rainforest.
• Rock Star , a 2001 film starring Mark Wahlberg and Jennifer Aniston , was based on Revkins newspaper article, A Metal-Head Becomes a Metal-God. Heavy , which was published in the New York Times in1997. The article describes how a singer from a Judas Priest association replaced his idol in the band Judas Priest.

Discography

• Andrew Revkin & Friends - A Very Fine Line (Album; Very Fine Lines Publishing, 2013)

Web links

Commons : Andrew Revkin  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Andrew Revkin in nndb (English)
• Dot Earth

Individual evidence

1. ↑ CV
2. ^ Reunion 2008: Retrospective: Alumni Reunion Forum: “Dot Earth: Pursuing Progress on a Finite Planet” , Brown University , Alumni
3. ^ Journalist, author, and singer Andrew Revkin examines climate change , The Daily Gazette , April 11, 2007
4. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from August 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ PRIEST TURN THEIR BACKS ON 'ROCK STAR' MOVIE , mtv.com, June 28, 2001
6. ^ A Metal-Head Becomes A Metal-God. Heavy , The New York Times, July 27, 1997