Andy Revkin is a senior reporter for climate change at ProPublica. He formerly reported on the environment for the New York Times and wrote its Dot Earth blog. A former instructor at Pace University in New York, he is the author of The North Pole Was Here: Puzzles and Perils from the Top of the World.
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