Mark Hertsgaard is an American journalist who is environmental correspondent for The Nation. His best-known work is On Bended Knee: The Press and the Reagan Presidency, which described the way the Reagan White House "deployed raw power and conventional wisdom to intimidate Washington's television newsrooms". Hersgaard received a B.A. from The Johns Hopkins University in 1977 and was one of the founders of Baltimore City Paper. In the 1990s, Hertsgaard's attention turned to the ecology of the Earth. He embarked upon a seven-year global tour to investigate the issue of environmental degradation. The journey spanned four continents, 19 countries and hundreds of interviews. This resulted in the book Earth Odyssey: Around the World in Search of Our Environmental Future, which was reviewed favorably in the New York Times Book Review and Time magazine. Hertsgaard's newest book is about climate change adaptation, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, titled Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth. 

December 29th, 1956 in (Age 67)