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How Buddhist monks are battling deforestation in Cambodia

July 7, 2016
By Ate Hoekstra, Phnom Penh
Deutsche Welle

Cambodia has one of the world’s highest deforestation rates. But a group of Buddhist monks are stepping up efforts to save forests by publicly revealing wrongdoings and mobilizing local villagers. Ate Hoekstra reports.

Illegal gold mining causing mercury contamination in indigenous groups

July 7, 2016
By Carolina Torres
Mongabay

Research finds high, unsafe levels of mercury contamination in Brazil’s Yanomami and Ye’kuana peoples, almost certainly due to illegal gold mining on indigenous lands in the Amazon.

Voices for Earth Justice Newsletter

July 2016

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Church to faithful: Take Pope's encyclical seriously

July 6, 2016
By William B. Depasupil
Manila Times

The leader of the Catholic Church in the Philippines, Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Antonio Tagle, has called on the faithful to take an encyclical of Pope Francis on the environment “seriously,” especially the call to “integral ecological conversion.”

Be kind to the environment for a greener Eid al Fitr

July 5, 2016
By Mohamed Abdel Raouf
Albawaba Business

Eid Al-Fitr is an important religious holiday that marks the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting, and is celebrated by Muslims all over the world. 

On this festive occasion, people usually buy new clothes, cook traditional food,...

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Carbon Rangers/Ecozoic Times

Vol. 9  No. 6

July 2016

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Religious scholars recommend ways to combat climate change

Contemporary environmental malpractices are religiously prohibited, say the scholars

By Menan Khater
Daily News Egypt
June 28, 2016

In the 41st round of the Cairo Climate Talks, religious scholars from different backgrounds tried to connect the dots between Islam, Christianity, and taking care of the environment in Egypt, in light of global climate change...

F&ES Faculty Receives Award in Iran Recognizing Work in Religion and Ecology

June 27, 2016
By Timothy Brown
Yale School Forestry & Environmental Studies

Sisters change lives for waste pickers of central India

June 27, 2016
By Saji Thomas
Global Sisters Report

Global Sisters Report is publishing a special series about how trash is managed in the world and how sisters are helping people affected by landfills. We start this project to mark the one-year anniversary of Pope Francis’ encyclical, Laudato Si’, about climate change, pollution and waste, which warns that: “The...

Baltimore archbishop: Addressing climate change is a 'moral imperative'

June 26, 2016
By William E. Lori
The Baltimore Sun

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