Gaia Vince

Gaia Vince is a freelance British environmental journalist, broadcaster and non-fiction author[1] with British and Australian citizenship.[2] She writes for The Guardian,[3] and, in a column called Smart Planet, for BBC Online.[4] She was previously news editor of Nature[1][3] and online editor of New Scientist.[3]

Gaia Vince
NationalityBritish
Occupation
AwardsRoyal Society Winton Prize for Science Books
Websitewww.wanderinggaia.com

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.[5] Her second book, Transcendence: How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time, was published in 2019.[6]

Vince wrote and presented a three-part Channel 4 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.[7]

On 31 October 2019, she presented an edition of the BBC Radio 4 programme Inside Science.

Bibliography
  • —— (2019). Transcendence: How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time. Chatto & Windus. ISBN 9780701187347.
  • —— (2014). Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made. Penguin Books. ISBN 9780241281116.

References
  1. Sample, Ian (24 September 2015). "Top science book prize won by woman for first time". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
  2. Cowdrey, Katherine (26 January 2016). "Penguin Press strikes six-figure deal to publish scientist Gaia Vince". The Bookseller. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
  3. "Gaia Vince". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
  4. "Smart Planet". BBC Online. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
  5. Borenstein, Seth (14 October 2014). "With their mark on Earth, humans may name era, too". AP News. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
  6. Gaia Vince (7 November 2019). Transcendence: How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-241-28111-6.
  7. Webb, Claire (30 April 2017). "Escape to Costa Rica: How a tiny country in Central America became an eco-paradise". Radio Times. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
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