Christina Larson is an award-winning foreign correspondent and science journalist. She focuses on global environmental issues — including climate and biodiversity — and has reported from more than twenty countries, including China, Brazil, India, Peru, and Rwanda.

Now a global science writer for the Associated Press, she is based in Washington, DC. From 2011 to 2018, she lived in Beijing as a China correspondent for Science magazine and Bloomberg News. She has written about everything from animal intelligence to artificial intelligence — and using new research to solve historical mysteries.

Most of all, she loves to get her boots muddy trekking with scientists in the field. At AP, she was lead writer for the global environment series, “What Can Be Saved?”, including dispatches from the Tibetan plateau, Rwandan rainforests, Tanzanian savannah, Caribbean coral reefs, and other threatened landscapes. She was also a writer for AP’s “Protein Problem” series — reporting from the Brazilian Amazon about the environmental impacts of our global food supply chain.

Her reporting has been honored with awards from the Society of Environmental Journalists, Overseas Press Club, Society of Publishers in Asia, and the James Beard Foundation.

Her writing has also appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Washington Post, Scientific American, Foreign Policy, Wired, Technology Review, Smithsonian, and other publications.

Christina has been an expert guest on the BBC, CNN, NPR, and elsewhere. She has given talks and moderated panels at Harvard, Oxford, Duke, and other universities, as well as at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars and the DC Environmental Film Festival.

An avid runner and occasional painter, she started birdwatching during the COVID pandemic – and now brings binoculars on every reporting trip, just in case.

Reach her at: christina.larson@gmail.com / clarson@ap.org

Photo: Christina hiking in the Tongass National Rainforest in Sitka, Alaska / Credit: James Palmer, August 2022