Michael Coren covers science, economics and the environment. He is the co-founder of the multimedia production studio + newsroom MajorPlanet Studios. He writes from San Francisco.

Michael began his career at newspapers such as the San Jose Mercury News, and joined Cambodia’s Phnom Penh Post as a reporter, later becoming its managing editor after receiving a Luce Fellowship to report in Asia. He is a contributor to Fast Company, Foreign Policy and other publications reporting on the intersection of science, economics, and the environment. He also served as the science and environment producer for CNN.com and earned an MESc focused on environmental economics from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.