Called "one of America’s finest reporters" by Barbara Ehrenreich, Mark Hertsgaard is the author of six books that have been translated into sixteen languages, including Earth Odyssey and On Bended Knee.

He has covered climate change, politics and the media for Vanity Fair, The Nation, Time, The New Yorker, NPR, L’espresso and other leading news outlets worldwide.

His next book, Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth, will be published in January 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.