My Climate Story: Terry Root
b"Scientist Terry Root\\u2019s research has helped reveal how climate change puts bird and animal species at risk for extinction. For Root, the climate connection is also personal: she was married to the late Steve Schneider, a Stanford professor and pioneer in communicating the impacts of climate change, who died suddenly in 2010.\\n\\n\\n\\u201cIt's been a fabulous career, but it has been very painful at times, very painful,\\u201d says Root, who was the lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report in 2007 when it was co-awarded the Nobel Peace Prize with Vice President Al Gore.\\n\\n\\nThis piece is published in partnership with Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story.\\n\\n\\nGuest:\\nTerry Root, Senior Fellow Emerita, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University\\n\\n\\nRelated Links:\\n\\n10 years after he monkey-wrenched a Utah oil and gas lease auction, Tim DeChristopher is \\u2018feeling demoralized' by \\u2018the state of the world\\u2019 but sees hope in humanity (The Salt Lake Tribune)\\nStephen Schneider, a leading climate expert, dead at 65 (Stanford News)\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices"