Gary Braasch is an environmental photojournalist whose interests range from coral reefs to mountaintops and from pole to pole. He was awarded the Ansel Adams Award for conservation photography by the Sierra Club and named Outstanding Nature Photographer by the North American Nature Photography Association. He is a "Legend Behind the Lens," an honor by the Nikon Corporation recognizing photographers worldwide, and a founding Fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers. These honors are the result a career as environmental photographer, reporter and explorer whose work has been commissioned by editors and publishers worldwide. Braasch's most important book is Earth Under Fire; How Global Warming is Changing the World (University of California Press, 2007; updated 2009) about the worldwide effects and solutions to global warming. He wrote a multiple-award winning companion book for middle school kids with Lynne Cherry, about climate science and citizen science, How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate (Dawn Publications 2008). Other books are Photographing the Patterns of Nature (Amphoto-Watson Guptill 1999); and Entering the Grove (Gibbs Smith,1990), with essays by Kim Stafford. Braasch has covered major environmental stories like the eruption of Mount St Helens, the battle over logging of ancient forests in North America, and the study of the rich ecosystems of Hawaii, the Everglades, forests and tidepools. Major assigned articles and portfolios have appeared in Time, LIFE, Discover, Audubon, National Wildlife, Smithsonian, Scientific American, Natural History, Sierra, French Terre Sauvage, French Photo, Outdoor Photographer, Photo District News, BBC Wildlife, GEO and National Geographic. Braasch's photographs and reports on global warming have also been widely published, including exhibition at the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington DC and the Field Museum in Chicago. His photographs are published by the United Nations as a set of six stamps about climate change in 2008.