Gaia Vince

Gaia Vince
Nationality British
Occupation
Awards Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books
Website www.wanderinggaia.com

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]

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  1. 1 2 3 Sample, Ian (24 September 2015). "Top science book prize won by woman for first time". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 "Gaia Vince". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
  3. "Smart Planet". BBC Online. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
  4. Borenstein, Seth (14 October 2014). "With their mark on Earth, humans may name era, too". AP News. Retrieved 14 October 2014.

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