About Beth Gardiner

Beth Gardiner is an American journalist based in London. Her first book, Choked: Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution, was named one of 2019’s best by The Guardian. It was a finalist for the National Association of Science Writers’ Science in Society book award, and a winner of the Green Prize for Sustainable Literature. Her work has been published in outlets including The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, The Washington Post, Scientific American, Smithsonian and Yale Environment 360. 

 

Beth spent 10 years as a reporter for the Associated Press, based first in New York and then in London. She’s discussed her work on NPR's All Things Considered and Here & Now, WNYC's Brian Lehrer show, and the BBC's World at One, as well as on MSNBC, CBC in Canada, Sky News, ITN and LBC radio. She was a speaker at TEDx London at the Royal Festival Hall. Beth is a three-time grantee of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, and a recipient of the City University of New York journalism school's McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism.