Peter Dykstra, a Greenpeace volunteer turned environmental journalist, died in July at age 67.
Dykstra worked as a volunteer and media director at Greenpeace before he joined CNN and later became publisher of Environmental Health News and The Daily Climate. He was widely known in the climate journalism world and was a frequent contributor to the environmental news program “Living on Earth.”
He died July 31 in Atlanta due to complications of pneumonia that led to respiratory failure, his family told The New York Times. Dykstra suffered a paralysis in 2017 that affected the lower half of his body, according to an obituary published in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
He was known for depth of knowledge about environmental issues, his devotion to baseball and his steadfast sense of humor even as his health declined, according to his friends and former colleagues.
