Stephan Faris

GlobalPost

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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Houses in Sicily for 1 euro? Maybe

Will a project to restore earthquake-ravaged Salemi overcome the personality of Mayor Vittorio Sgarbi?

Houses in Sicily for 1 euro? Maybe
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Opinion: Psychology of being green

Opinion: Psychology of being green
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Italians debate whether "gay" is an insult

Italians debate whether "gay" is an insult
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Opinion: Haiti's tragedy belongs to the environment

Opinion: Haiti's tragedy belongs to the environment
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Opinion: Are environmentalists an endangered species?

Opinion: Are environmentalists an endangered species?
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Opinion: Missing link in Obama's climate strategy

Mitigation is all that matters, but countries can't agree on how.

Opinion: Missing link in Obama's climate strategy
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Opinion: Pollution means power

As developing countries discovered in Copenhagen on Monday, being in the right doesn't buy much.

Opinion: Pollution means power
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Opinion: How consumer choices can drive environmental change

When businesses realize that eco-friendly alternatives will help their bottom line, they take action.

Opinion: How consumer choices can drive environmental change
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Opinion: Still hope for Copenhagen summit

With the US lagging, climate talks in Copenhagen may be destined to fail. But some hold out hope.

Opinion: Still hope for Copenhagen summit
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If a tree falls in the woods ...

Finding a way to slow the felling of forests is necessary to control global warming

If a tree falls in the woods ...
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Peering into the future with scientific arson

Scientists are setting fires in the Amazon to figure out how encroaching agriculture and climate change will affect forests.

Peering into the future with scientific arson
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When the seas threaten

Tuvalu is eliminating its carbon output. It hopes to shame bigger polluters into following along — before it sinks.

When the seas threaten
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Adapting to a warming world

If we’re no longer committed to heading off a warmer world, we’ll have to adapt to living in one.

Adapting to a warming world
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Climate negotiations stagnate at G8

Expected agreement falls through as countries disagree over how cuts should be allocated.

Climate negotiations stagnate at G8
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The science of climate change, for public consumption

Review: "Climate Change: Picturing the Science"

The science of climate change, for public consumption