Robert J Kunzig

Writer, editor; environment, science, sometimes history. Ex @NatGeoMag, @DiscoverMag, @sciam

[Michael Greshko @michaelgreshko]

Big news! A team of former @natgeo editors and contributors (@Rachael_Bale @OlliePayneHere @rebersole) has started a new investigative wildlife journalism nonprofit called WIRE. Incredible that they are continuing this important work: https://t.co/xzZM4wDiLF

[News from Science @NewsfromScience]

Pumped storage hydropower plants can bank energy for times when wind and solar power fall short.

Learn more: https://t.co/UcOEV6U46z #LongReads

[Robert J Kunzig @rkunzig]

@DAdamsSimmons @NatGeo @CarlaEWills What a pleasure!

[Michael Terrell @michael_terrell]

Back when we built @Google data centers in AL and TN, we negotiated to add renewable energy to the grid to help power them. But there's more to be done to drive clean energy in the region. Terrific deep dive on TVA in @TheAtlantic by @rkunzig https://t.co/CFRjHIbD1M

[Robert J Kunzig @rkunzig]

Wouldn’t it be great to have a federal agency that could model the clean-energy transition in a deep-red region? The agency exists: the Tennessee Valley Authority. How's it doing? My piece for the Atlantic, with thanks @nijhuism and @jehanjillani
https://t.co/zuL1NWcTjg

[Robert J Kunzig @rkunzig]

@jasontreat @CraigAWelch Likewise!

[Craig Welch @CraigAWelch]

My new National Geographic just arrived, which includes my latest feature—my 16th, and my last as a senior writer.

NatGeo is laying off all of its staff writers.

I’ve been so lucky. I got to work w/incredible journalists and tell important, global stories. It’s been an honor.

[Elizabeth Kolbert @ElizKolbert]

The perfect — and very funny — response to Bret Stephens’ “come to climate” moment, by one of my favorite climate scientists who (full disclosure) happens to be one of my kids:
https://t.co/xhQljEFYCE

[Craig Welch @CraigAWelch]

It's Friday night, 34 yrs after James Hansen warned about #climatechange, and Congress just passed the biggest, most transformative #climate law in history.
It could help clean energy power 81% of U.S. electricity in 8 yrs. And so much more.
Me for @natgeo
https://t.co/1PBQN5pSE6

[@DeniseHruby @nisnis]

"I’d expect that other prehistoric humans will come out," Fischer told me. "If it happens, then it’s this summer." Portrait @CirilJazbec.

Thanks to editors @rkunzig @DominiqueAnneH @NatGeo, @AndreaFischerIC & her team @oeaw, @EURAC & @GlacialArchaeo1 END https://t.co/AWuWepQ35B

[@DeniseHruby @nisnis]

The beauty of the Alps will remain. But the waning of snow and ice represents an emotional loss, a loss of culture and identity, as well as an economic one: My magazine piece for @NatGeo, with photos by @CirilJazbec and editing by @rkunzig https://t.co/mVZdDKTW6a

[Robert J Kunzig @rkunzig]

Can mud brick be a climate solution? Fine reporting by ⁦@PSchwartzstein⁩ and ⁦@moises_saman⁩ about some inspiring architecture in Burkina Faso. Thanks to @undp for support. https://t.co/aHQtsVMaTe

[Indira Lakshmanan @Indira_L]

Is 2021 finally a watershed year for public opinion and action on #climate?
Experts @KHayhoe @DrKWilkinson explain to @NatGeo #environment's @rkunzig and @alejandrabee_ why warming is on people’s minds more and what the public can do on #ClimateAction https://t.co/CdHvHLbPYi

[Dennis Dimick @ddimick]

1/x Bringing receipts that @NatGeoMag has been talking about #climate change for not as long as Arrhenius but for at least decades. Those writers asserting that “no one was talking about climate change until recently” per @JacquelynGill, could benefit from some history…to wit

[Robert J Kunzig @rkunzig]

Check out Nat Geo’s weekly environment newsletter, in business since Earth Day. I write a short intro. This week: back to the Garden.

[Robert J Kunzig @rkunzig]

It will happen @RobKunzig, esteemed relative. The future is yours

[Robert J Kunzig @rkunzig]

Ha! Thanks. That makes me want to talk to @ClimateBook again, the source of the wisdom

[David Ho @_david_ho_]

Last lecture of the semester, on adaptation and mitigation today. The last slide is a caution from a @rkunzig article about solar geoengineering.

https://t.co/zzoaF9RIq5

[Johan Rockström @jrockstrom]

World's richest biome tipping from sink to source? First study of all Amazon greenhouse gases suggests the damaged forest is now warming not cooling the planet https://t.co/JWh5AQ9zVG via @NatGeo

[Robert J Kunzig @rkunzig]

Fair point, thanks. We’ve corrected that caption and clarified the headline. The news is still disturbing though

[Prof Michael E. Mann @MichaelEMann]

While @NatGeo's photo caption DOES state that, it's wrong. The study DOES NOT show that that the Amazon rainforest has ceased storing net carbon.

@NatGeo: you need to correct this.

[Indira Lakshmanan @Indira_L]

Here's the fantastic story by @NatGeo #environment editor @rkunzig that I mentioned about the unique moment: evidence of #climatechange is dire, the window to fix it is closing, and we can't squander moment to stop abusing the planet: https://t.co/9wKBu2VwnP @NatGeoMag