Richard Girling is a

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journalist and author, known for his writing on the environment.

Life and career

Richard Girling, born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire in 1945, is a journalist for ''

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''. In 2002, he won the Specialist Writer category at the

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. He was awarded the Environmental Journalist of the Year award in 2008 and 2009 at

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's Environmental Journalism Awards.

Published works

Fiction

*''Ielfstan's Place : 15,000 BC-1919 AD'' (1981) *''Sprigg's War'' (1984)

Non-Fiction

*''The Best of Sunday Times Travel'' (1988) (editor) *''The View From The Top : A Panoramic Portrait of British Landscape'' (with Paul Barker) (1997) *''Rubbish! Dirt On Our Hands and Crisis Ahead'' (2005) *''Sea Change: Britain's Coastal Catastrophe'' (2007; paperback 2012) *''Greed: Why We Can't Help Ourselves'' (2009) *''The Hunt for the Golden Mole'' (2014) *''The Man Who Ate the Zoo: Frank Buckland, Forgotten Hero of Natural History'' (2016) *''The Longest Story: How Humans Have Loved, Hated and Misunderstood Other Species'' (2021)

References

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