ABOUT
Gloria Dickie is an award-winning Canadian journalist and author of Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future. She has over a decade of experience reporting on stories at the intersection of the environment, science, and geopolitics across five continents. Her writing has appeared in leading publications such as The New York Times, The Guardian, Foreign Policy, Wired, Scientific American and The Walrus.
Much of her career has focused on the warming climate and shifting politics of the Arctic region. Her current reporting lines include geoengineering, air-conditioning and extreme heat, biodiversity conservation, and natural hazards, from wildfires to volcanoes to tsunamis.
Her first book, Eight Bears, has been translated into four languages and was chosen as a best book of 2023 by The New Yorker, The Economist, and Scientific American.
She previously spent four years as a global climate and environment correspondent at Reuters News Agency in London and is now based between Bangkok and the western United States. Her literary work is represented by Aevitas Creative Management.
Fellowships, Grants and Awards:
2026: Woodwell Climate Center Science Journalism Fellow in Alaska
2025: Covering Climate Now Award
2024: Columbia University Energy Journalism Fellow
2022: U.N. Foundation Thomas Lovejoy Fellow in Brazilian Amazon
2022: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Journalism Fellow
2022: Livingston Award for International Reporting finalist (Svalbard)
2021: Fund for Investigative Journalism Grant
2019: National Geographic Explorer Grant
2018: Oregon State University Marine Sciences Media Fellow
2017: National Tropical Botanical Garden Journalism Fellow
2016: University of Alaska Fairbanks Arctic Journalism Fellow