Stephan Faris covers climate change for GlobalPost and is the author of Forecast: The Consequences of Climate Change, from the Amazon to the Arctic, from Darfur to Napa Valley.
As a journalist who specializes in writing about the environment and the developing world, he has covered Africa, the Middle East and China for publications including Time, Fortune, the Atlantic, the New York Times Magazine, and Salon. He has lived in Nigeria, Kenya, Turkey and China.
In 2003, he covered the invasion of Iraq for the New York Daily News and returned a year later for TIME magazine. He is a graduate of the University of Arizona's department of optical engineering and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.
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As developing countries discovered in Copenhagen on Monday, being in the right doesn't buy much.
When businesses realize that eco-friendly alternatives will help their bottom line, they take action.
With the US lagging, climate talks in Copenhagen may be destined to fail. But some hold out hope.
Finding a way to slow the felling of forests is necessary to control global warming
Scientists are setting fires in the Amazon to figure out how encroaching agriculture and climate change will affect forests.
Tuvalu is eliminating its carbon output. It hopes to shame bigger polluters into following along — before it sinks.
If we’re no longer committed to heading off a warmer world, we’ll have to adapt to living in one.
Expected agreement falls through as countries disagree over how cuts should be allocated.
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