Mr. Seth Borenstein is a national science writer for The Associated Press, the world’s largest news organization, covering issues ranging from climate change and natural disasters to astronomy and particle physics. Based in Washington, DC, and at The AP since 2006, he works on both the newly created climate and environment team and the health and science team. His primary beat is climate change, especially the science of climate change. In that beat he has covered Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change plenary sessions, United Nations meetings that resulted in climate treaties, and broke news from glaciers in Greenland.

A science and environmental journalist for more than 30 years, Mr. Borenstein covered dozens of space shuttle and other rocket launches, as well as numerous hurricanes and other disasters, natural and human-caused. He also was The AP’s delegate tracking reporter in the 2020 presidential election and has been an electionnight race caller for several years.

He is the winner of numerous journalism awards, including the National Journalism Award for environment reporting in 2007 from the Scripps Foundation and the Outstanding Beat Reporting award from the Society of Environmental Journalists in 2008 and 2004. He was part of an AP Gulf of Mexico oil spill reporting team that won the 2010 George Polk Award for Environment Reporting and a special merit award as part of the 2011 Grantham environment reporting prizes. He was part of a team of finalists for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Columbia space shuttle disaster.

A Washington-based reporter since 1998, Mr. Borenstein has also worked for Knight Ridder Newspapers’ Washington Bureau, uncovering questionable contract spending by the Department of Defense during the Gulf War. He was a space reporter for theOrlando Sentinel and a specialty writer for the Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale. He is the co-author of three out-of-print books: ANDREW! Savagery from the Sea (1992), Hurricane Survival Guide (1993), and Dancing Honeybees (1994).

He has flown in zero gravity and once tried out for the then-Florida Marlins baseball team, unsuccessfully.

A graduate of Boston University, Mr. Borenstein is one of the founding faculty members at New York University’s Washington, DC, campus, where he teaches journalism and society.

A retired scout leader and youth sports coach, Mr. Borenstein is married, and hashas three grown children.