Journalist Robert Kunzig has been covering science for American magazines since 1983. He is currently Senior Environment Editor at National Geographic, where he helped conceive and oversee its April 2020 special issue commemorating the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. Robert’s articles have won awards from the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Geophysical Union and have frequently been selected for the annual Best American Science and Nature Writing compilation. He has also written two books, Fixing Climate, with Wallace Broecker, and Mapping the Deep, which won the Royal Society prize as science book of the year in 2001. From 1996 through 2008, Robert was a correspondent in France, based in Dijon. He holds dual French and American citizenship.