Dec 15, 2016 | Blog, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Environment & Sustainability
Coral reefs are remarkable, bright colored, teeming with biodiversity and supporting a complex ecosystem. But they can live only in narrow ranges of temperature, making them particularly vulnerable to the variations in ocean temperatures that are being caused by...
Dec 7, 2016 | At Work, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Employment & Prosperity
GSNs at Work: Greenpeace and the seal hunters of Nunavut. Forty years ago Greenpeace was a fledgling organization protesting atomic testing in the Alaskan Arctic, Russian whaling in the Pacific, and the Canadian seal hunt. In the aftermath of those pioneering...
Nov 18, 2016 | Blog, Cities, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Employment & Prosperity, Health & Human Security
By Eldon Opiyo [NAIROBI] Despite recent improvements in infrastructure and affordability, internet adoption in Sub-Saharan Africa is not growing rapidly, a report from the Internet Society says. The report says that the continent’s internet adoption is not growing...
Nov 2, 2016 | Advocacy Networks, Climate, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Environment & Sustainability, Policy Networks
Hidden in the chaos of the US presidential vote are climate change issues, and public utility legislation, that have potentially long-reaching implications. National Geographic has released several new documentary pieces that demonstrate that they have held their...
Jun 25, 2016 | Blog, Climate & Planet Stewardship
We may not always have Paris, as the surprising British “Brexit” vote to leave the European Union may have profound implications for climate policy. Several GSNs have expressed concern that the Vote Leave movement leaves many issues open on the UK role in...
May 19, 2016 | Climate, Climate & Planet Stewardship
Getting the public to believe in climate change may be getting easier, but encouraging action, even among people who report that they are the most concerned about the problem, is a primary occupation for scientists and activists. A study published this week in the...