Books By Olive Heffernan - Author

Olive Heffernan is an award-winning science journalist. Her work has been published in Nature, WIRED, National Geographic, Salon, Scientific American and BBC Wildlife, among other outlets. Now freelance, Olive spent a number of years with Nature covering climate change, including as first chief editor of the research journal Nature Climate Change. In 2019, she joined the faculty of Johns Hopkins University as an adjunct lecturer and received a Giles St Aubyn Award for non-fiction from the Royal Society of Literature. In 2024, she was funded by the Pulitzer Centre to report on ocean conservation in Europe. Her first book THE HIGH SEAS: Ambition, Power and Greed on the Unclaimed Ocean was published in 2024. She lives by the sea in Ireland.