Mark Schapiro

Mark Schapiro is a veteran environmental journalist, who covers the intersection between the environment, economics and international politics. He was formerly editorial director and senior correspondent at the Center for Investigative Reporting. His work is published widely in magazines such as Harpers, The Atlantic, Yale 360, The Nation, Mother Jones and elsewhere. He has also worked as reporter/correspondent for the PBS newsmagazine show FRONTLINE/World; and for the public radio program Marketplace. He teaches at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and at the Monterey Institute of International Studies.

His latest book, CARBON SHOCK, is the product of five years of intensive reporting and writing from the hot-spots where the costs of climate change are being experienced and fought over.

Previous books include EXPOSED: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What’s at Stake for American Power (Chelsea Green) and CIRCLE of POISON: Pesticides and People in a Hungry World (with David Weir).