Occupation: Fiction Writer Birth: 1956
When I wrote a long story about the retreat of sea ice, I made clear it could go the other way for a while, and that doesn't mean we don't know that ….
There are still people who essentially live in intellectual silos and either read Mother Jones or watch Fox News, based on their worldview. And they ….
Scientists are also unnerved by the summer's implications for the future...proof that human activities are propelling a slide toward climate calamity….
The responsibility of the scientist or journalist is to convey the context. If you're talking about the Arctic Sea ice, you have to embrace the reali….
Additional federal studies are under way to see if any contamination reaches taps or ground water used for drinking, but the program under which they….
Probably the single-most concrete and substantive thing an American, young American, could do to lower our carbon footprint is not turning off the li….
I can tell you many reasons why environmental stories don't get adequate attention in conventional media. Basically, environmental risks don't fit th….
The survey of more than 100 waterways downstream from treatment plants and animal feedlots in 30 states found minute amounts of dozens of antibiotics….
We're an amazingly adaptive and resilient species. Once we put our mind to global warming, I have no doubt we'll figure a way through here that won't….
You never know you're in a bubble until it pops..
The things that happen are an earthquake, another bomb in Iraq, some big jolt on Wall Street in oil prices, and then you have some new study on droug….
I'm trying mostly to ask questions. And not just trying to stake out a position on something, but also trying to define the stuff we agree on. I'm ha….
The aspects of global warming that matter most to people - how rapidly will the seas rise? Are hurricanes already getting stronger? How strong will t….
Every time someone reads a story about the politics poisoning the global warming stuff it makes it feel like a political story, meaning it's Us and T….