Jan 6, 2018 | Climate, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Environment & Sustainability
Hurricanes, and wildfires are more frequent, more devastating, or both. In 2017, high-category hurricanes battered the US and wind-whipped fires scorched the West. Deviating from normal tracks, hurricanes even traversed the North Atlantic to create disaster conditions...
Jan 9, 2017 | Climate & Planet Stewardship
Polar Bears achieved Endangered Species Act protection in 2008, but the Bush administration passed a rule in their last days in office robbing them of protections and putting them in peril from their worst threats: global warming and oil and gas development. The...
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...
Dec 8, 2015 | At Work, Blog, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Knowledge Networks
The new single-topic news platform will detail the ramifications of climate change in the circumpolar Arctic. Media startup News Deeply launched its first single-topic news site Syria Deeply almost three years ago and followed it with Ebola Deeply. Both of the...
Nov 11, 2015 | Blog, Climate & Planet Stewardship
In her latest book, This Changes Everything, Naomi Klein quotes a solar energy teacher who tells his students: “There are times when you must accept small steps forward and there are other times when you need to run like a buffalo, now is the time to run.”...
