Abrahm Lustgarten is an American investigative reporter, author, filmmaker and public speaker specializing in human adaptation to climate change, and an educator training journalists in cross-disciplinary communication about the climate crisis. He writes on staff for ProPublica[1] and has worked with the New York Times Magazine.
Lustgarten was a staff writer at Fortune. He holds a master’s in journalism from Columbia University and a bachelor’s in anthropology from Cornell, and was a 2022 Emerson Collective Fellow at New America. He is the author of two previous books: “Run to Failure: BP and the Making of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster” and “China’s Great Train: Beijing’s Drive West and the Campaign to Remake Tibet.”
Lustgarten’s investigations include an examination of the global palm oil trade, the climate drivers of pandemics and BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill (which led to the Emmy-nominated “The Spill” with Frontline, a project he worked on). His 2015 series examining water scarcity in the American West, “Killing the Colorado,” was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting, received the top journalism honor from the National Academies of Sciences and was also the basis of the 2016 Discovery Channel film “Killing the Colorado,” which Lustgarten co-produced. His early investigation into fracking, starting in 2008, exposed one of the oil industry’s most dangerous legacies — its ongoing threat to America’s drinking water. The work received the George Polk award for environmental reporting, the National Press Foundation award for best energy writing and a Sigma Delta Chi award; it was a finalist for the Goldsmith Prize.
Lustgarten’s recent reporting focuses on global migration, demographic change and conflict in response to a warming climate. His 2022 investigation into how the International Monetary Fund and global finance institutions have kept Barbados and other climate-vulnerable nations paralyzed by high levels of debt led in part to the introduction of the Bridgetown Initiative, a global effort to reform climate finance for developing countries crafted by Barbadian Prime Minister Mia Mottley. In 2020 Lustgarten’s three-story cover series on a great climate-driven migration, published in partnership with the Times Magazine, helped prompt President Joe Biden’s formation of a climate migration study group and research report in the run-up to the COP26 conference in Glasgow, Scotland. That work became the focus of his new book, "On The Move; The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America."
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This article has multiple issues Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page Learn how and when to remove these template messages This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification Please help by adding reliable sources Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page especially if potentially libelous Find sources Abrahm Lustgarten news newspapers books scholar JSTOR March 2024 Learn how and when to remove this message This article is an autobiography or has been extensively edited by the subject or by someone connected to the subject It may need editing to conform to Wikipedia s neutral point of view policy There may be relevant discussion on the talk page March 2024 Learn how and when to remove this message Learn how and when to remove this message Abrahm Lustgarten is an American investigative reporter author filmmaker and public speaker specializing in human adaptation to climate change and an educator training journalists in cross disciplinary communication about the climate crisis He writes on staff for ProPublica 1 and has worked with the New York Times Magazine Abrahm LustgartenNationalityAmericanAlma materB S Cornell University M A Columbia UniversityOccupationJournalistWebsiteabrahm wbr com Contents 1 Career 2 Awards 3 Works 4 References 5 External linksCareer editThis section does not cite any sources Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed March 2024 Learn how and when to remove this message Lustgarten was a staff writer at Fortune He holds a master s in journalism from Columbia University and a bachelor s in anthropology from Cornell and was a 2022 Emerson Collective Fellow at New America He is the author of two previous books Run to Failure BP and the Making of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster and China s Great Train Beijing s Drive West and the Campaign to Remake Tibet Lustgarten s investigations include an examination of the global palm oil trade the climate drivers of pandemics and BP s Deepwater Horizon oil spill which led to the Emmy nominated The Spill with Frontline a project he worked on His 2015 series examining water scarcity in the American West Killing the Colorado was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting received the top journalism honor from the National Academies of Sciences and was also the basis of the 2016 Discovery Channel film Killing the Colorado which Lustgarten co produced His early investigation into fracking starting in 2008 exposed one of the oil industry s most dangerous legacies its ongoing threat to America s drinking water The work received the George Polk award for environmental reporting the National Press Foundation award for best energy writing and a Sigma Delta Chi award it was a finalist for the Goldsmith Prize Lustgarten s recent reporting focuses on global migration demographic change and conflict in response to a warming climate His 2022 investigation into how the International Monetary Fund and global finance institutions have kept Barbados and other climate vulnerable nations paralyzed by high levels of debt led in part to the introduction of the Bridgetown Initiative a global effort to reform climate finance for developing countries crafted by Barbadian Prime Minister Mia Mottley In 2020 Lustgarten s three story cover series on a great climate driven migration published in partnership with the Times Magazine helped prompt President Joe Biden s formation of a climate migration study group and research report in the run up to the COP26 conference in Glasgow Scotland That work became the focus of his new book On The Move The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America Awards edit2009 George Polk Award 2 2009 Goldsmith Prize finalist 3 2012 Sigma Delta Chi finalist investigative reporting citation needed 2016 National Academies Keck Futures Award 4 2016 Pulitzer Prize finalist National Reporting 5 2017 Nina Mason Pulliam Award for Outstanding Environmental Reporting 6 2021 Covering Climate Now award best series special issue citation needed 2021 National Association of Science Writers Science in Society Award citation needed 2021 Oversees Press Club s Hal Boyle Award citation needed 2021 Nina Mason Pulliam Award for Outstanding Environmental Reporting citation needed 2023 Ted Scripps Award for Excellence in Environmental Reporting citation needed Works editChina s Great Train Beijing s Drive West and the Campaign to Remake Tibet Macmillan 2008 ISBN 9780805083248 Run to Failure BP and the Making of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster W W Norton 2012 ISBN 978 0 393 08162 6 On The Move The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America Farrar Straus amp Giroux 2024 ISBN 978 0 37417173 5References edit Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica 6 June 2023 Mike Webb February 10 2010 ProPublica s Abrahm Lustgarten Wins a George Polk Award ProPublica 2009 Goldsmith Awards Shorenstein Center on the Press Politics and Public Policy Press release March 17 2009 https www keckfutures org awards 2016winners html https www pulitzer org finalists abrahm lustgarten al shaw jeff larson naveena sadasivam and david sleight propublica http www ninapulliamtrust org News Press Releases new 10000 award to honor best environmental reporting in 2018 External links editAuthor s website Appearances on C SPAN Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Abrahm Lustgarten amp oldid 1216925031, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
