Henry Fountain [is a reporter for The New York Times who] covers climate change, with a focus on the innovations that will be needed to overcome it. He also writes about other science-related subjects, including earthquakes, hurricanes, mudslides, nuclear accidents and other natural and human-caused disasters. For 10 years he wrote about research findings from across the world of science in Observatory, a weekly column in Science Times. He is the author of “The Great Quake,” a book about the 1964 Alaskan earthquake. - from nytimes.com/by/henry-fountain