Fred Pearce
English environment writer; contributing writer for Yale Environment 360.
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- Fred Pearce is an English science writer based in London who reports on the environment, water, population and climate change.
- He is environment consultant to New Scientist and a contributing writer for Yale Environment 360.
- His books include When the Rivers Run Dry, The Land Grabbers, The New Wild and A Trillion Trees.
Key facts
- Born
- c. 1951; brought up in Kent1
- Education
- Studied geography at Cambridge and left after two years for journalism1
- New Scientist
- Environment consultant1
- Yale Environment 360
- Contributing writer; his newest article there, on the resurgence of mangrove forests, is dated 22 October 20262
- Other outlets
- The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Times Higher Education, Foreign Policy, Time, The New York Times1
- Books
- Watershed (1982); The Dammed (1992); When the Rivers Run Dry (2006, revised 2018); The Coming Population Crash (2010); The Land Grabbers (2012); The New Wild (2015); Fallout (2018); A Trillion Trees (2021); Despite It All: A Handbook for Climate Hopefuls (2026)1
- Population
- Argued in The Coming Population Crash (2010) that consumption is a much bigger environmental threat than population1
- Awards
- RSPB Environment Journalist of the Year (2001); CGIAR Science Award for Outstanding Journalism (2002); Association of British Science Writers Lifetime Achievement Award (2011)1
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