About

Elizabeth Claire Alberts is an American-born journalist with Syrian and European roots currently based in West Cork, Ireland. Before settling in the Emerald Isle, she lived in Belgium, Australia, and the UK, with occasional stints in the United States.

She is a senior staff writer at Mongabay, an award-winning environmental publication with a global audience of 111 million readers. As part of Mongabay’s ocean desk, launched in 2025, Elizabeth reports on a wide range of ocean issues, including deep-sea mining, overfishing, and the impacts of climate change on coral reef ecosystems. You can read her work for Mongabay here.

From 2024 to 2025, Elizabeth was selected for the second cohort of the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network, a yearlong fellowship supporting in-depth ocean journalism. During the fellowship, she investigated the deep-sea mining firm The Metals Company and reported on global developments of the seabed mining sector. More about her reporting through the Pulitzer Center can be found here.

She previously worked as a staff writer at The Dodo, now part of Vox Media. Her byline has also appeared in publications such as The Guardian, Alternatives Journal, Earth Island Journal, Sierra, Audubon, Overland, Resurgence & Ecologist, Adventure.com, and Afar.

Elizabeth holds a Ph.D. in creative writing from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, where she taught undergraduate and graduate creative writing for eight years. Her doctoral research focused on the contemporary verse novel for children and young adults.

When she’s not reporting, she can be found combing the beaches of West Cork for seashells with her six-year-old twins, cooking vegan meals, or dreaming of her next scuba dive.