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For Abandoning Climate Accord, Pope Swipes Trump on World Food Day

October 16, 2017
By Jessica Corbett
Common Dreams

Pope Francis says addressing armed conflicts and the effects of climate change are “prerequisites” for ending global hunger

Pope Francis seemed to take a jab at the United States and President Donald Trump on Monday, while speaking at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s Rome headquarters...

Kenyan Youths vouch for Ecological Farming

October 16, 2017
By George Okore
Africa Science News

Kenyan students want their government to take urgent steps to safe-guard the country’s food security and protect consumers from the threats of a broken food system.

God Amidst Our Planetary Crisis

Faith and Reason 360
Episode 9
October 13, 2017

As fires rage in California and hurricanes menace the Gulf Coast and the Caribbean, hosts Ann Phelps and Debo Dykes talk with guest Frederica Helmiere about the environment and what lessons Christians can learn from their interaction with the natural world.

Earth is speaking. Loudly. Can we hear?

October 12, 2017
By Elizabeth Allison
Huffington Post

Things are dire, but the fight for Earth is not over, says Bill McKibben

October 12, 2017
By Susan Gonzalez
Yale News

The planet Earth is in the beginning stages of a mass extinction, warned environmental activist and author Bill McKibben during his campus visit as a Chubb Fellow on Oct. 10.

Development, human rights, environment -- 'water is at the heart of all of it'

October 12, 2017
By Soli Salgado
Global Sisters Report

Water is the entry point for those on the justice-peace journey, Sr. Maura McGrath says.

“Water is life, it’s sacred, so it’s got to be our way into making any moves in terms of equality and human rights,” said the Congregation of Notre Dame sister...

McKibben talks climate change

October 11, 2017
By Chloe Glass
Yale Daily News

Award-winning author and environmental activist Bill McKibben addressed a crowd in Woolsey Hall Tuesday afternoon about the quickening pace of climate change and the ways citizens can work together to fight back.

For Native Americans, a river is more than a 'person,' it is also a sacred place

October 8, 2017
By Rosalyn R. LaPier
The Conversation

The environmental group Deep Green Resistance recently filed a first-of-its-kind legal suit against the state of Colorado...

Pope Francis emphasises need to care for oceans in message to Our Oceans Conference

October 6, 2017
By Massimo Costa
Malta Today

Pope Francis calls oceans “the common heritage of the human family” in letter to participants of ‘Our Ocean’ conference being held in Malta

In a letter addressed to the participants of the ‘Our Ocean’ conference, which is currently underway, Pope Francis encouraged efforts to deal with various pressing issues which...

The Challenge of Creating 'Ecological Civilization' in China

October 5, 2017
By Mary Evelyn Tucker
Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies

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