A longtime China journalist, Craig Simons is writing a book about China’s large – and growing – global environmental footprint. The book, as yet untitled, will be published by St. Martin’s Press in late 2012 or early 2013. Craig was the Asia bureau chief for Cox Newspapers from 2005 until 2009 and before that reported from Beijing and Chongqing for Newsweek. He has written for other magazines and newspapers including Outside, Backpacker, The New York Times, and Science. In 2011, he was a fellow at the Alicia Patterson Foundation, which funded some of the reporting used in these stories