Olive Heffernan is an award-winning science journalist and author of THE HIGH SEAS: Ambition, Power and Greed on the Unclaimed Ocean, first published in 2024.
Her work has been published in Nature, WIRED, National Geographic, Salon, Scientific American and BBC Wildlife, among other outlets.
Now freelance, Olive spent a number of years with Nature covering climate change, including as the first chief editor of the research journal Nature Climate Change.
In 2019, she joined the faculty of Johns Hopkins University as an adjunct lecturer teaching Climate Communication and was awarded a Giles St Aubyn Award for non-fiction from the Royal Society of Literature.
Olive has extensive speaking experience, including on podcasts and at live events.
Twitter: @O_Heffernan
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