Gaia Vince (born ) is a freelance British environmental journalist, broadcaster and non-fiction author with British and Australian citizenship. She writes for ''

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'', and, in a column called ''Smart Planet'', for

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. She was previously news editor of ''

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'' and online editor of ''

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''. 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. The book discusses the

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, the proposed

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that begins when human activities started to have a significant global impact on Earth's

ecosystem An ecosystem (or ecological system) consists of all the organisms and the physical environment with which they interact. These biotic and abiotic components are linked together through nutrient cycles and energy flows. Energy enters the syste ...

s. Her second book, ''Transcendence: How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time'', was published in 2019. In 2022, she released her third book, ''Nomad Century'', where she argues that the coming decades will inevitably see billions of people migrate due to

global heating Global means of or referring to a globe and may also refer to: Entertainment * ''Global'' (Paul van Dyk album), 2003 * ''Global'' (Bunji Garlin album), 2007 * ''Global'' (Humanoid album), 1989 * ''Global'' (Todd Rundgren album), 2015 * Bruno ...

. Vince asserts that – with the right policies – this migration can be a good thing both for the migrants and the host countries that receive them. Vince wrote and presented a three-part

Channel 4 Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network operated by the state-owned enterprise, state-owned Channel Four Television Corporation. It began its transmission on 2 November 1982 and was established to provide a four ...

television series ''Escape to Costa Rica'', first broadcast in April 2017. Filmed in Costa Rica with her partner Nick Pattinson and their two young children, the series explored the country's environmental initiatives, renewable energy and sustainable development. Vince has, on occasions, presented editions of the

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programme ''

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''.

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Guardian science podcast episode
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