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.
The future for growing rice doesn't look good. It's the world's largest food crop, feeding an estimated 3.5 billion people every day. But the impacts of climate change threaten to sap it of needed water as the risk of drought grows in coming decades.
Severe flooding during Hurricane Florence has provided new evidence that accumulating heat in the world's oceans from climate change is bringing new dangers to the nation's coastlines.
The Department of Energy plans to invest $80 million in early-stage research to push the development of non-carbon-emitting fuels and products from wastes, including municipal sewage sludge, agricultural wastes and non-food plants.
DENVER — The Colorado River system's ongoing 19-year drought could trigger unprecedented water rationing among its southern states by mid-2020, a new study warns.
BOULDER, Colo. — Concerned by new evidence that damage from hailstorms could grow as global temperatures climb, scientists are asking for more resources to study how the icy stones form, including the use of an armored aircraft to fly into storms.