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Robert Kunzig is the environment editor for National Geographic magazine. A science journalist for the past 28 years, he specializes in earth science and the environment. As a freelance writer, his work has appeared in Time, Scientific American, Discover, U.S. News & World Report, and other magazines. His first article for National Geographic, “The Drying of the West,” was published in February 2008, and his most recent article on Canadian oil sands mining, “Scraping Bottom,” appears in the March 2009 issue. He has written two books, Fixing Climate and Mapping the Deep: The Extraordinary Story of Ocean Science, which was awarded both the Aventis Prize for Science Books by the Royal Society in London and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Ocean Science Journalism Award.