David Roberts makes it a point that he is not an environmentalist while covering climate change, clean energy and the politics of both at Vox.com. His work has been featured in The Chicago Tribune, Reuters and The Atlantic and he has made appearances on CNN and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Before moving to Vox in 2015, he wrote for Grist.org on the same subjects for 10 years.
Roberts moved from Tennessee to Seattle, where he lives with his wife and two sons.
Recordings
The 2020 Election: Anxiety and Incrementalism
November 6, 2020
The 2020 campaign season has finally come to a close. And days after November 3rd has passed, the country is still reeling.About seventy percent...
The Big Climate Stories of 2019
December 27, 2019
2019 saw a number of significant events in the climate world. Wildfires, floods, wind and extreme weather continued to batter the nation from...
The Big Climate Stories of 2018
December 21, 2018
We’re making a list (and checking it twice) of 2018’s biggest climate stories, with the help of Vox reporter David Roberts. Roberts notes that...
Climate Storytellers
July 20, 2018
Strategic Adviser for Geographic Society, Andrew Revkin, has been writing about climate change since the 1980s, including 21 years for The New...
Elizabeth Kolbert and David Roberts: Covering Catastrophe
September 22, 2017
Communicating about climate change and convincing the public that something needs to be done about it is a complicated proposition, one that...