Alexander C. Kaufman is a writer and senior reporter at HuffPost, where he covers energy, climate change, and environmental policy.
He’s chased stories around the world, from the Brazilian Amazon to Greenland’s ice sheet, China’s first atom-smashing lab to the Netherlands’ only nuclear reactor. His reporting explores the nuances of the energy transition, at times challenging prevailing narratives on climate solutions and spotlighting the price people in places like Mississippi and Puerto Rico pay for policies written in faraway capitals.
A frequent commentator on public-affairs radio, Kaufman has been a monthly guest on BBC World Service’s “Business Matters” for nearly a decade. He’s appeared on stage at conferences such as WebSummit and SXSW and over airwaves on MSNBC, NPR, and international broadcasters in Australia, Pakistan, and the Philippines. The Society of Environmental Journalists and the Writer's Guild of America, East, where he’s helped organize shops and bargain a contract, count him as a member.
His 2021 children’s nonfiction book Earth’s Aquarium, an exploration of 15 aquatic ecosystems and the threats they face, was published in the U.S. by Abrams Books and translated into four languages.
Kaufman got his start in journalism at 15, writing for The Long-Islander, a nearly 200-year-old weekly Walt Whitman founded. He went on to work for The Boston Globe, The Wrap, FishbowlNY, and the International Business Times before joining HuffPost as a business editor in 2014. He’s freelanced for City & State, OneZero (RIP), and Pacific Standard, and his work has been syndicated by Yahoo, Wired, Mother Jones, Slate, Grist and Canada’s National Observer. He has advised and served on the boards of various nonprofit newsrooms and previously worked waiting tables, serving coffee, manning cash registers, and stocking retail shelves.
A fourth-generation New Yorker raised on Long Island, he lives with his wife and their cat in what’s colloquially known as South Brooklyn but technically considered Southern Brooklyn.