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John was the founding editor of Climatewire. He's now a reporter working on special projects, based in Denver, Co. 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.
BOULDER, Colo. — A team of scientists from Harvard University is planning the world's first substantial experiment in the stratosphere to see whether an aerosol of tiny reflective particles might help cool the Earth from the gathering solar heat caused by carbon dioxide emissions.
"The history of aviation is marked by people achieving extraordinary things, despite the conventional wisdom of the time telling them it couldn't be done." — Air Transport Action Group
In 2008, a group of airlines came to Boeing Co., the world's largest aerospace company, with a big problem. At that point, the United States was weighing policies to fight climate change. One of them involved cutting emissions from jet fuel.
After a 170-year delay, the discovery of a strange, metallic-looking rock found in the Ural Mountains in Russia in 1839 has ignited a global technology race for a cheaper, more efficient solar cell. It could seriously disrupt the world's solar market, currently dominated by China.
In 2009, studies of deep sediment layers from a largely unknown, unexplored lake in the tundra of Russia's eastern Arctic released a flood of new evidence about what global warming had done to the Arctic 3 million years ago.