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David Abel is an award-winning reporter, documentary filmmaker and professor of journalism who covers environmental issues, mainly focused on climate change, for The Boston Globe. Abel's work has won an Edward R. Murrow Award, the Ernie Pyle Award from the Scripps Howard Foundation and Sigma Delta Chi awards for climate reporting and feature reporting. He was also part of the team that won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting for the paper’s coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings. 

Over the years, he has written stories that cast light on serious problems in Massachusetts, such as the  , state prisons that , and the damage caused by major cuts to environmental agencies. Ìý

As a documentarian, Abel has directed several films, including Entangled, which chronicles the efforts to protect North Atlantic right whales from extinction amid climate change, and Lobster War: The Fight Over the World's Richest Fishing Grounds, detailing a climate-fueled conflict between the United States and Canada over waters that both countries have claimed since the end of the Revolutionary War. Entangled won a Jackson Wild award, known as the Oscars of nature films, and was nominated for a national Emmy.Ìý

Abel helped launch the podcast produced by Harvard Business School in 2019. The podcast still runs today. He is now a professor of science journalism in the College of Communication at Boston University.Ìý