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Eugene Linden writes about science, technology, the environment and humanity's relationship with nature in books, articles, and essays. His most recent books include: Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations, published by Simon and Schuster in Feb. 2006 (and serialized in Fortune Magazine), The Octopus and the Orangutan: New Tales of Animal Intrigue, Intelligence, and Ingenuity, and The Parrot's Lament and Other True Tales of Animal Intrigue, Intelligence, and Ingenuity. The Parrot's Lament was serialized at cover length in TIME. In 2002, Plume published an updated version of The Future in Plain Sight, which was described by The Rocky Mountain News as "the most important book of the decade" when it was first published in 1998.
Some recent major articles include “Seeing the Forest: Conservation on a Continental Scale,” in the July/August 2004 issue of FOREIGN AFFAIRS. This article, co-authored with Thomas Lovejoy and J. Daniel Phillips, offered an easily deployed, low-cost way of conserving vast systems such as the Congo rainforest. Another recent major article was “The Nature of Cuba,” published in May 2003 as a cover story in SMITHSONIAN. During the 1990s, much of Linden's magazine writing was published in Time, which he joined in 1987 with the responsibility to conceive of, report, and write major stories on the environment and science. Linden wrote the central story for TIME's first global special issue, "How to Save the Earth," published on Earth Day 2000. From 1988 through 2000, Linden has played a major role in all of TIME's special issues devoted to the environment including the international special issue, "Our Precious Planet,” and "Endangered Earth," in TIME's celebrated planet-of-the-year issue published in 1989.
Apart from his work on TIME's special issue, Linden's recent major articles for TIME include articles on climate change and a new threat to the Amazon rain forest in 2000. Both "Arctic Meltdown" and "The Amazon Tinderbox" ran as international cover stories and in shorter form in the U.S. edition. The Amazon story revisited an issue Linden first covered in his 1989 cover story, "Torching the Amazon."
Linden's cover story, "The Rape of Siberia," was awarded a 1996 Overseas Press Club Citation for Excellence. Another major piece, "Warnings From the Ice," about the search for clues to climate change in Antarctica, was a finalist for the 1997 John Oakes Award for writing about the environment. Before that ``Doomed' discussed the bleak prospects facing the tiger. This cover story won the 1995 Genesis Award for outstanding writing about animal issues, and was the runner up for the National Press Club's Robert Kozick Award. ``Can Animals Think?' published in March 1993, won the Genesis Award in 1994. In January 1993, Time published ``Megacities' which explored the risks and opportunities of the global stampede to the cities in this century. ``Megacities' won the 1994 Harry Chapin Media Awards Competition for Best Periodical as well as the Population Institute's 1994 Global Media Award for Best Periodical.
In July 1992, ``Inside the World's Last Eden,' documented Linden's trip into a remote rainforest never before visited by humans. Another cover story was ``Lost Tribes, Lost Knowledge,' in which Linden explored the consequences of the impoverishment of human knowledge as tribes around the world abandon their ways and forget the wisdom acquired over thousands of years. The story was a finalist for the 1991 National Magazine Awards in the Public Interest category. His cover story ``The World's Water' was awarded the 1991 American Geophysical Union Walter Sullivan Award for Excellence in Science Journalism. Linden's first cover story for Time was an article on artificial intelligence.
Eugene Linden began his career in Vietnam. In 1972, Saturday Review published his investigation of the demoralization of the American fighting forces. Following this he began his exploration of humans and nature in books and articles. Apes, Men, and Language was concerned with the implications of experiments attempting to impart human language to apes. The Alms Race examined the impact of voluntary aid on Africa. Affluence and Discontent offered a theory of the nature and origins of consumer societies. In Silent Partners (chosen by the New York Times as a notable book of 1986), Linden used the aftermath of the ape language experiments to explore our ambivalent relationship with the natural world. Between them, Linden's books have been translated into thirteen foreign languages.
Apart from his books, Linden has contributed articles to a wide range of publications, including the Atlantic, the New York Times Magazine, Conde Nast Traveler, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, Fortune, and Inc. In March 1992, the National Geographic published as a cover story ``Apes and Humans: A Curious Kinship.' The Jan/Feb 1996 issue of the journal Foreign Affairs included an essay by Linden on the looming problems facing cities in the developing world. In recent years, Linden has written a number of essays for MSNBC.com.
Linden has consulted with the U.S. State Department, and the United Nations Development Program. In 2001 he was named as one of four recipients of the first Poynter Fellowship at Yale University to be awarded for environmental journalism.
Apart from his writing, Linden speaks frequently about nature, environment and the future. He served as a final judge for the 2003 Jackson Hole Film Festival. He also serves on several nonprofit boards and advisory committees, and as an independent director of three companies.
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