Seth Borenstein is a Washington-based national science writer for The Associated Press, the world’s largest news organization. At, the AP since 2006, his primary beat is climate change. He also has covered space, physics, astronomy and hurricanes. In June 2026, he was inducted into the Society of Professional Journalists’ Washington D.C. chapter’s Hall of Fame.
He is the winner of numerous journalism awards, including the National Journalism Award for environment reporting in 2007 from the Scripps Foundation and the Outstanding Beat Reporting award from the Society of Environmental Journalists in 2008 and 2004. He was part of an AP Gulf of Mexico oil spill reporting team that won the 2010 George Polk Award for Environment Reporting and a Miami Herald team that was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Columbia space shuttle disaster.
Borenstein has been a Washington-based reporter, starting in 1998 at the Knight Ridder Newspapers’ Washington Bureau. He was a space reporter for the Orlando Sentinel and a specialty writer for the Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale.
Borenstein teaches journalism at New York University’s Washington, D.C. campus. He co-authored three out-of-print books: ANDREW! Savagery from the Sea (1992); Hurricane Survival Guide (1993) and Dancing Honeybees (1994), flown in zero gravity and tried out for the then-Florida Marlins.
