American Environmental Journalist Tatiana Schlossberg, dies at 35
New York: Former U.S. President John F. Kennedy's granddaughter and environmental journalist Tatiana Schlossberg passed away on December 30, 2025. She was 35 years old. Schlossberg is survived by her husband, George Moran, and their two children.
In a statement shared on social media by the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, the family said, "Our beloved Tatiana passed away this morning. She will forever be in our hearts."
American environmental journalist Tatiana Schlossberg reported on climate change and science for The New York Times. Her work focused on the human and environmental costs of global warming. She explained climate change and biodiversity loss without resorting to apocalyptic framing. She was interested in how harm becomes normalized: how energy use is hidden in data centers, how consumption displaces pollution elsewhere, how environmental costs are made so abstract that they become livable. She resisted the comforts of individual virtue, arguing instead that climate change is perpetuated by systems that reward convenience and conceal responsibility.
In 2019, Tatiana Schlossberg wrote "Inconspicuous Consumption", a book examining climate change and consumer responsibility. In it, she explored the environmental consequences of everyday life, not to assign blame, but to show how difficult it is to escape harm once it is embedded in infrastructure and supply chains.
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In a deeply personal article published in The New Yorker in November 2025, she announced that she had terminal cancer. The diagnosis came just hours after the birth of her second child in May 2024, when a routine blood test revealed an alarmingly high white blood cell count. The disease was acute myeloid leukemia, with a rare mutation that made treatment less likely to succeed. She recounted the entire ordeal with unflinching honesty: chemotherapy, a bone marrow transplant from her sister, remission, relapse, treatment, another transplant, and another relapse. There was no silver lining. The treatments worked until they didn't.
Her final months reinforced what she had long been saying as a reporter: that lives depend on systems whose vulnerabilities are easy to ignore until one is caught within them. She wrote about nurses, doctors, research funding, and clinical trials with the same meticulous attention she had once given to fisheries management or energy grids. It was all about consistency.
Tatiana Schlossberg was the second daughter of Caroline Kennedy, the former U.S. ambassador to Australia and Japan, and Edwin Schlossberg, a designer and author. She was part of one of America's most prominent political families, but she largely focused her public identity on her work rather than her lineage.
