Michael Kodas
Senior Editor
Michael Kodas, of Boulder, Colorado, is the author of Megafire: The Race to Extinguish a Deadly Epidemic of Flame, which won the 2018 Colorado Book Award for General Nonfiction and was named one of the 20 best nonfiction books of 2017 by Amazon. He is also the author of High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed, which was named Best Non-Fiction in USA Book News’ National Best Books Awards of 2008 and was the subject of a question on the game show Jeopardy!. He is the former Deputy Director of the Center for Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado Boulder. As a photojournalist at The Hartford Courant he was part of the team awarded the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news coverage in 1999. He has also been honored with awards from the Pictures of Year International competition, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition and the National Press Photographers Association. His work has appeared in the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, The Denver Post, Newsweek, the Ken Burns/Lynn Novick documentary The Vietnam War and many other print, online and broadcast outlets.
Fueled by Climate Change, Wildfires Threaten Toxic Superfund Sites
By Michael Kodas, David Hasemyer
Huge Western Fires in 1910 Changed US Wildfire Policy. Will Today’s Conflagrations Do the Same?
By Michael Kodas
A Siege of 80 Large, Uncontained Wildfires Sweeps the Hot, Dry West
By Michael Kodas
The Fires May be in California, but the Smoke, and its Health Effects, Travel Across the Country
By Evelyn Nieves, Michael Kodas
California and Colorado Fires May Be Part of a Climate-Driven Global Transformation of Wildfires
By Michael Kodas
Video: Dreamer who Conceived of the Largest Arctic Science Expedition in History Now Racing to Save it
By Anna Belle Peevey, Michael Kodas
