John was the founding editor of Climatewire. He's now a reporter working on special projects, based in Denver, Colo. He's a former reporter with The Wall Street Journal, where he covered a wide variety of issues for the Washington bureau. He also served abroad as the lead reporter for the Journal in the first Gulf War and in the London bureau, during the waning days of the Cold War. He has written four books and is the co-founder of SOAR!, a group that has raised more than $10 million to help retired Catholic sisters and brothers.
Small unmanned watercraft are revolutionizing oceanography and beginning to answer questions about climate change that have troubled scientists for decades. One of them was originally designed to sneak up on whales.
DENVER — Unusually thick clouds of smoke moving east from large wildfires in California and Colorado have scientists worried about the plumes' impacts on climate change and their unknown effects in the upper atmosphere.
The global quest for emission-free energy from fusion entered a new phase this summer as over a million major components of what will be the world's largest tokamak reactor were gathered on a 103-acre field in southern France.
Katey Walter Anthony's career as an ecologist specializing in water and other environmental research started with a whoosh.
The Department of Energy is preparing a new set of partnerships and innovations that could help the nation's three power grids handle a transformation in U.S. energy generation to meet lower emissions goals.