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Are You Ready for More? In a world of climate change, freak storms are the new normal

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Are You Ready for More?

In a world of climate change, freak storms are the new normal. Why we’re unprepared for the harrowing future.

By Sharon Begley
Newsweek
May 29, 2011

The Yamuna River: India's Dying Goddess

Spring 2011
By Richard Conniff
The Journal of the Yale School Forestry & Environmental Studies

Uganda religious leaders act on deforestation

May 24, 2011
By Pius Sawa
Alertnet

KAMPALA, Uganda (AlertNet) – When Anglican bishop Nathan Kyamanywa was appointed to his job in 2002, he decided that climate change should be a matter of concern for Christians. Kyamanywa bought 55 tree seedlings and gave one to each of the parishes in his diocese of Bunyoro-Kitara in western Uganda.

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Consciously Recognizing Ourselves Before We Die

May 23, 2011
By Duane Elgin
Huffington Post

EPA Weighs Threats Posed by Mercury Used in Religious Rituals

May 18, 2011
By Emily Yehle of Greenwire
New York TImes

When a Puerto Rican family moved into its new Rhode Island home last year, it didn’t notice anything amiss about the first-floor apartment on a busy Cumberland street.

But within months, the family’s 3-year-old daughter began getting blisters on her hands. Soon, the toddler’s skin began to peel off, and her mother...

Girl child no burden in this Bihar village

May 18, 2011
By Prabhakar Kumar
CNN-IBN

Bhagalpur: India has the worst record in South Asia when it comes to the sex ratio. Its 914 girls for every 1000 boys under the age of six. But in one village in Bihar, it’s a...

Secretary-General Urges Remembrance of the Buddha's Message: Tolerance, Respect for All Religions

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Secretary-General, at Event Marking 2,600 Years since Buddha’s Enlightenment, Urges Remembrance of His Message: Tolerance, Respect for All Religions

United Nations Press Release
May 16, 2011

Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the special event marking the 2,600th anniversary of the enlightenment of the...

Churchyard wildlife watch for UN International Biodiversity Day (May 22)

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Spot an Orchid in your Churchyard: Churchyard wildlife watch for UN International Biodiversity Day (May 22)  

Church of England
May 17, 2011

Shrinking the Footprint, the Church of England’s national environmental campaign, is encouraging churchgoers to follow in the footsteps of the Rev Gilbert White and other naturalists to take a closer look at wild...

Teaching Religion and Ecology: Background and Overview

Religious Studies News
Published by the American Academy of Religion

May 2011

http://www.aarweb.org/publications/teaching-religion-and-ecology-background-and-overview

Hindus back Pontifical Academy of Sciences' call to "protect the habitat"

May 11, 2011
ANI Press Release

Hindus have supported the call of Pontifical Academy of Sciences to “people and nations” to “recognise the serious and potentially irreversible impacts of global warming”.

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