Robert Kunzig is a scientific journalist, specializing in

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. He works at the European division of ''

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'' magazine and is a regular contributor to

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Journalism

Kunzig's writings led him to win a prize in scientific journalism from the

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. He received the

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's " Walter Sullivan Award for Excellence in Science Journalism" in 1994.''Walter Sullivan Award for Excellence in Science Journalism–Features: Past recipients''
AGU; retrieved . His book, ''Mapping the Deep'', a narrative of the story of ocean science, won the 2001 Aventis Science Book of the Year award. He has co-written an account of climate science with the geophysicist and climate scientist,

Wallace Broecker Wallace "Wally" Smith Broecker (November 29, 1931 – February 18, 2019) was an American geochemist. He was the Newberry Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University, a scientist at Columbia's Lamont–D ...

. This includes a discussion of the work of

Klaus Lackner Klaus S. Lackner is the Founding Director of the Center for Negative Carbon Emissions (CNCE) and a professor in School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment at Arizona State University. He is scientific advisor to Carbon Collect ...

in re-capturing from the atmosphere—which Kunzig and Broecker consider will play a vital role in reducing emissions and countering

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. Most recently, he has also written on the size and impact of the human population on the planet.

Books

*''The Restless Sea''; 1999. *''

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''; 2000. Awarded the 2001 Aventis Prize for Science Books) *'' Fixing Climate: The Story of Climate Science - and How To Stop Global Warming''; 2008 (with Wallace Broecker])

Articles

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''Seven Billion''
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References

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