Uploaded December 2024 | Updated September 2026, 15 hours ago

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We celebrated this year's Friend of Darwin and Friend of the Planet awardees in a virtual celebration. Hear from the 2024 winners:

- Riley Black, science writer and the author of the award-winning The Last Days of the Dinosaurs
- Kostas Kampourakis of the University of Geneva whose latest book is the anthology Darwin Mythology: Debunking Myths, Correcting Falsehoods
- Jonathan B. Losos of Washington University in St. Louis, a leading evolutionary biologist and the author of Improbable Destinies and The Cat's Meow
- The George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication, directed by Edward W. Maibach
- Dawn J. Wright, a geographer and oceanographer who is Chief Scientist of ESRI, a geographic information system and spatial data science company
- Lorne Trottier, a Canadian entrepreneur and philanthropist and a former member of NCSE’s board of directors

Hosted by NCSE's Amanda L. Townley and Glenn Branch, with additional words from NCSE Board President Kenneth R. Miller.