Shannon Osaka is a climate and environment reporter for the Washington Post, where she covers climate science and policy, the clean energy transition, and plastics. As a journalist, she is a two-time winner of the SEAL Award for Environmental Journalism and her work has been recognized by the National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation, Covering Climate Now, and the Online Journalism Awards.
She is currently on leave from the Post to write a book on the emerging science on microplastics for HarperCollins. Her book project has taken her from landfills in Mumbai and laboratories in Nebraska to a town in Shikoku, Japan, that tries to recycle 100% of its plastic materials. Prior to becoming a journalist, she studied environmental policy at Princeton University and the University of Oxford and has authored several papers on perception of climate science and modeling.
