By Bethany Ao, GSS correspondent PARIS — The Conference of Youth ended Saturday with new ideas, hope, and renewed commitment to taking action against climate change. An estimated 5,000 participants from around the world — a global outpouring that included students from Columbia, Egypt,…
By Bethany Ao, GSS correspondent PARIS, Nov. 26 — COY11 attendees gathered today to discuss water infrastructure in developing countries, a crucial issue that is a key part of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. According to the UN World Water…
Video, tweet and photo by Bethany Ao, GSS correspondent PARIS — Earth Guardians is a self-described "tribe" of artists, activists and musicians advocating for environmental sustainability and climate change action. Guardians Jasmina Sikora and Jaiia Cerff gave an hour-long rap concert…
Reported by Bethany Ao, GSS correspondent Visualize Bali, and chances are you think of a serene, pristine environmental paradise. But students at Green School in Bali, Indonesia, came to the Conference of Youth today in Paris determined to tell a…
By Bethany Ao, GSS correspondent PARIS — It doesn't take a lifetime to change the world. Takai'ya Blaney, 14, addressed the Conference of Youth climate change summit in Paris today, telling attendees that climate change is "not an abstract statistic" but…
PARIS — GSS news editor Bethany Ao sat down with Asher Jay, a National Geographic Young Explorer and artist who addressed the COY11 climate change conference in Paris earlier today (see "@EarthHeiress Asher Jay: 'Wild Is Who We Come From"). Ao and…
By Bethany Ao, GSS correspondent PARIS — Asher Jay's Twitter profile @AsherJayNYC defines her goal and her process — "Asher Jay creates to comment, conserve and contribute" as "a designer, artist, writer and activist" through art, design installations, film, and advertising. But…
By Bethany Ao, GSS correspondent PARIS — [Editor's note: GSS news editor Bethany Ao is attending COY11 in Paris, where she met Diana Ríos, a leader of the Asheninka people in Peru. In September 2014, four activists in Pullcalpa, in Peru’s…