Marla Cone is one of the nation's premier environmental journalists. She has 16 years of experience covering environmental issues, including 11 years at the Los Angeles Times. Cone has written well over 1,000 newspaper and magazine articles on environmental topics, from Los Angeles's epic battle with smog to the plight of the East Coast's endangered whales. In 1999, Cone was awarded a Pew Fellowship, becoming the first journalist to be bestowed with the coveted award. The $150,000 grant allows her to pursue the journalism project of her choice: an investigation of pollution in the Arctic realm. Cone was also named a teaching fellow at the University of California, Berkeley in 1999, and again in 2002. She lives in Long Beach, CA.