Dr. Terry Root & Dr. Stuart L. Pimm discuss recent research showing human beings are responsible for high extinction rates of species across the globe, and explain how we can prevent a sixth major extinction event Story Transcript ANTON WORONCZUK, TRNN PRODUCER: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Anton Woronczuk in Baltimore. According to […]
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Terry L. Root is a Senior Fellow/University Faculty at the Woods Institute for the Environment and a Professor, by courtesy, in the Department of Biology at Stanford University. Her research addresses how wild animals and plants will adapt or not with global warming. In addition to other honors, Root was awarded the Spirit of Defenders Award for Science by the Defenders of Wildlife in 2010. She was a Review Editor for the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group II, 5th Assessment Report, and a Lead Author of Working Group II, 3rd and 4th Assessment Reports that came out in 2001 and in 2007, respectively. In 2007, she was one of the IPCC members recognized when the IPCC was co-awarded the Nobel Peace Prize with Vice President Al Gore.
