Olive Heffernan

Olive Heffernan is an award-winning science journalist. 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 first chief editor of the research journal Nature Climate Change . In 2019, she joined the faculty of Johns Hopkins University as an adjunct lecturer and received a Giles St Aubyn Award for non-fiction from the...See more

Olive Heffernan is an award-winning science journalist. 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 first chief editor of the research journal Nature Climate Change . In 2019, she joined the faculty of Johns Hopkins University as an adjunct lecturer and received a Giles St Aubyn Award for non-fiction from the Royal Society of Literature. In 2024, she was funded by the Pulitzer Centre to report on ocean conservation in Europe. Her first book THE HIGH SEAS: Ambition, Power and Greed on the Unclaimed Ocean was published in 2024. She lives by the sea in Ireland. See less