Jacques Leslie is an author, essayist, and journalist. A former Los Angeles Times foreign correspondent, he now writes essays chiefly about environmental issues for The New York Times and Los Angeles Times opinion pages and The New Yorker's Elements blog. He is the author of Deep Water: The Epic Struggle Over Dams, Displaced People and The Mark: A War Correspondent's Memoir of Vietnam and Cambodia. He has also written an e-book, A Deluge of Consequences, which depicts how Bhutan launched a remarkable project to head off devastating floods triggered by climate change.