Clayton Page Aldern

My book The Weight of Nature was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice, a Next Big Idea Club Must-Read, a Financial Times Best Summer Book, a Sierra Magazine Must-Read, a Behavioral Scientist Notable Book, and a Bookshop.org Most Notable Science Book of 2024. It received a starred review from Kirkus and has been reviewed everywhere from the New York Times Book Review to the Times Literary Supplement to the British Journal of Psychiatry.

Investigative reporting teams to which I’ve contributed have received the Nina Mason Pulliam Award for Outstanding Environmental Reporting (the Society of Environmental Journalists’ highest honor), the Richard LaCourse Award for Investigative Journalism (the Indigenous Journalists Association’s top recognition), a national Edward R. Murrow Award for Investigative Reporting, Sigma Awards for data journalism, Online Journalism Awards, and the Institute for Nonprofit News’ Breaking Barriers Award.

My work has been cited in several recent books, including Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s Abundance (Avid Reader Press), Malcolm Harris’s What’s Left (Little, Brown), Leslie Davenport’s clinician’s guide Emotional Resiliency in the Era of Climate Change (Jessica Kingsley), and Charles Harper and Monica Snowden’s textbook Environment and Society: Human Perspectives on Environmental Issues (Routledge), among others. My work in climate data visualization has been presented on the floor of the U.S. Senate by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI).

Other writing and research has been featured, excerpted, or pointed to by various organizations, including The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Economist, The Los Angeles Times, The Sunday Times, The Seattle Times, USA Today, IEEE Spectrum, Democracy Now!, Sierra, Smithsonian, NRDC, Sightline, the U.S. Climate and Health Alliance, the American Geophysical Union, and many others.

Due to a completely inconsequential email subscription on John Podesta’s behalf, I also technically appear in the Podesta Emails via a message conspicuously titled “Paris and the wolfpack.”