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.
Two Cessna planes will start making passes over 33,000 oil and gas wells in southeast New Mexico later this month. It's part of a new business plan, and its creators hope to strike it rich by revealing invisible plumes of methane.
Two satellites orbiting at speeds of almost 17,000 mph collided in 2009 over Siberia. Those kinds of space crashes could happen more frequently as humans release more carbon dioxide.
DENVER — One of the coolest places when it comes to climate change is the Ice Core Facility, a large warehouse here funded by the National Science Foundation. It contains 11 miles of ice cores, from holes drilled into glaciers around the world.
A Montreal-based company that has pioneered the use of a small privately owned satellite to spot methane leaks plans to launch more of the microwave-sized greenhouse gas detectors into space.
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.