Peter Dykstra, a former Greenpeace activist who became an environmental journalist for CNN, died on July 31, at 67.
Mr. Dykstra’s death, in a hospital in Atlanta, was caused by complications of pneumonia that led to respiratory failure, his family said.
Mr. Dykstra was heard most recently on the public radio show “Living on Earth,” to which he contributed a weekly summary of the latest environmental news, recorded at his home in Brookhaven, Georgia.
“He was a very gregarious person and an extrovert who knew everybody in every nook or cranny of the environmental beat,” Kate Tobin, a colleague of Mr. Dykstra’s at CNN, said in an interview. “I’d put him against any environmental journalist anywhere at any time.”
