Sam Bloch is an environmental journalist and the author of Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource (Random House), a “compelling … conversation-starter” (NPR) and New Yorker Best Book of 2025.
He has covered climate change and the built environment for publications including Places Journal, Slate, CityLab, Landscape Architecture Magazine, and The New York Times, and written about arts and music for L.A. Weekly, Art in America, and Artnet, among others. Previously, he was a staff writer at The Counter, where he reported on food and agriculture.
Bloch is a graduate of the Columbia Journalism School, and a former MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellow and Emerson Collective Fellow. He is based in New York City, where he lives with his partner and their son.
