Reno Reporter

A renowned science journalist, author and educator was recently featured on a University of Nevada, Reno-backed podcast on how to mitigate climate change.

Andrew Revkin, a leading environmental reporter, believes he is at the forefront of educating the public on environmental issues that could soon have devastating consequences, according to a Nov. 16 university press release.

“I would like to see some of those basic principles get back into journalism,” Revkin said in the release. “If it's just about clickbait, it's actually counterproductive in the end because if you're constantly pummeling your audience with overly simplified visions of these environmental problems, they disengage."

Revkin has written about many environmental issues including the North Pole's climate, the Amazon rainforest and the tsunami that hit the Indian Ocean in 2004, the release stated. He also established The Initiative on Communication and Sustainability at Columbia Climate School.

The podcast was hosted by graduate student Shelby Herbert of the Reynolds School of Journalism's Hitchcock Project for Visualizing Science and included a conversation between Revkin and Zeb Hogan, of NatGeo Monster Fish, and Sudeep Chandra, a professor of limnology, that covered Revkin’s more than 35 years as a defender of the environment, according to the release.