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World

Scientists call for 'gradually reduced' population to fight climate change

Matt Hadro|Nov 5, 2019|4 Min Read

An aerial view shows a deforested plot of the Amazon near Porto Velho, Brazil, Sept. 17, 2019. (CNS photo/Bruno Kelly, Reuters)

World

Amazon governors, meeting after synod, support 'green economy'

Barbara J. Fraser|Oct 29, 2019|4 Min Read

Londolfo Aranha Neto, 59, casts his net among treetops at the edge of the Belo Monte Dam reservoir, near Altamira, Brazil. He is among the thousands of fisher families displaced by the flooding of the Xingu River who are slowly moving back. But the once-rich fishing grounds yield far fewer fish than before, and he says fishers constantly snag their nets on submerged trees. (CNS photo/Paul Jeffrey)

World

Caring for common home requires deep ecological conversion, synod says

Barbara J. Fraser|Oct 27, 2019|4 Min Read

Fishermen near Fonte Boa, Brazil, catch a fish in a Solimoes River tributary Nov. 24, 2013. (CNS photo/Bruno Kelly, Reuters)

World

From sidewalk weeds to Amazon waterways, the wonders of creation abound

Barbara J. Fraser|Oct 21, 2019|4 Min Read

Molly Burhans, founder and executive director of Goodlands, receives the UN Young Champions of the Earth Award. (Courtesy of Jeffrey Bruno via Crux)

Faith

U.N. honors Catholic activist using data to fight climate change

Christopher White|Oct 8, 2019|5 Min Read

Students from St. Joseph High School in Brooklyn, N.Y., smile as they participate in the Global Climate Strike in New York City Sept. 20, 2019. The youth-led march and rally was one of many demonstrations held around the world urging government and business leaders to take immediate action to combat climate change. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)

World

How the Papal documents are paving a way forward

Nora Bradbury-Haehl|Oct 4, 2019|3 Min Read

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, a Catholic, speaks during during the opening of the 2019 United Nations Climate Action Summit Sept. 23, 2019, at U.N. headquarters in New York City. (CNS photo/Carlo Allegri, Reuters)

World

Commitment to fighting climate change still weak, pope says

Junno Arocho Esteves|Sep 23, 2019|2 Min Read

Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg, center, takes part during the Climate Strike global protest, September 20, 2019 in New York. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/AP via Crux)

News

Activists say the Church needs to ‘scale up’ in face of climate emergency

Christopher White|Sep 23, 2019|4 Min Read

Pope Francis is welcomed by Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina

News

Pope warns Madagascar that deforestation threatens both people and planet

Inés San Martín|Sep 7, 2019|4 Min Read

A wildcat gold miner builds his makeshift home at a deforested area of the Amazon rainforest near Crepurizao

News

Territory is life, life is territory: what indigenous want church to know

Barbara J. Fraser|Feb 15, 2019|5 Min Read

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