Douglas Fischer

Douglas Fischer has spent 15 years covering subjects ranging from climate science to environmental health to energy development.

Since 2008, he has served as editor of DailyClimate.org, a non-partisan website compiling mainstream news and current science on climate change. He is also a senior member of the editorial team at Environmental Health Sciences, the non-profit publisher of Daily Climate, where he helps guide the organization’s editorial content and works with scientists to communicate their findings to the press.

Before switching to the Web, Fischer spent eight years covering the environment for the Oakland Tribune and a number of San Francisco Bay Area papers, including the San Jose Mercury News and the Contra Costa Times. Prior to that he spent five years in Fairbanks, Alaska, at the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, where, among other hats, he was the paper’s restaurant reviewer. He started his journalism career in New York City, in Newsweek’s Letters Department.

His articles have won numerous national and regional awards, among them an Award of Merit from the inaugural Grantham Prize, the world’s largest journalism prize. Data from one of his investigations, of a typical family’s chemical body burden, was published in a peer-reviewed article in Environmental Health Perspectives in 2006, and he has lectured frequently on environmental health and journalism in conferences, seminars and classrooms across the country.

Fischer has a degree in philosophy from Columbia University and lives with his wife and two children in Boulder, Colo.