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 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 9, 2016 | Blog, Cities, Employment & Prosperity
For days the smog levels in Delhi have been choking residents and threatening health with dangerous particles and an air quality index that has reached 999 (anything above 500 is considered “hazardous,” and, by comparison, the current levels in London are...
Dec 7, 2015 | Blog, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Employment & Prosperity
African countries launched AFR100 (African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative), a pan-African, country-led effort to restore 100 million hectares (386 thousand square miles) of degraded and deforested landscapes by 2030. The AFR100 target of 100 million hectares...
