Gaia Vince
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| Nationality | British |
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| Awards | Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books |
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Gaia Vince is a freelance British environmental journalist. broadcaster and non-fiction author.[1] She writes for The Guardian,[2] and, in a column called Smart Planet, for BBC Online.[3] She was previously news editor of Nature[1][2] and online editor of New Scientist.[2]
Her Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made won the 2015 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books, making her the first woman to win the prize outright.[1] The book discusses the Anthropocene, the proposed epoch that begins when human activities started to have a significant global impact on Earth's ecosystems.[4]
Bibliography
- —— (2014). Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made. Chatto & Windus. ISBN 9780701187347.
References
- 1 2 3 Sample, Ian (24 September 2015). "Top science book prize won by woman for first time". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
- 1 2 3 "Gaia Vince". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
- ↑ "Smart Planet". BBC Online. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
- ↑ Borenstein, Seth (14 October 2014). "With their mark on Earth, humans may name era, too". AP News. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
External links
- Official website
- Gaia Vince on Twitter
- Gaia Vince on Journalisted
- Guardian science podcast episode featuring Vince (2014)
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