August 2016 News

August 31, 2016
By Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim The Quarterly Review of Biology. Vol. 91, No. 3, September 2016: 261-270. Download the article here:http://fore.yale.edu/files/...
August 31, 2016
August 30, 2016By Amanda Klasing The Globe and Mail “She likes to take a bath, but [the water] irritates her skin,” Susan said of her active two-year-old daughter...
August 30, 2016
August 29, 2016Vatican Radio Cardinal Peter Turkson, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, gave a keynote address for World Water Week on Monday, in...
August 30, 2016
Sioux tribe’s concerns were echoed in official reports by the EPA and two other agencies, but Army Corps of Engineers brushed them aside. By Phil McKennaInside Climate...
August 26, 2016
With Lawrence O’Donnell MSNBC  August 26, 2016 In the Rewrite, Lawrence explains why a protest by Native Americans in North Dakota reminds us of the history...
August 25, 2016
August 24, 2016By Sonali KolhatkarTruthDig Until a few years ago, the word “occupation” was synonymous with power, imperialism and foreign invasion. Today, in the...
August 25, 2016
U.S. Judge James Boasberg said he would make a decision by September 9 on whether to halt work on the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline By Nadia Prupis Common DreamsAugust...
August 25, 2016
Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim, Senior Lecturers and Research Scholars at Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, are currently offering four six-week online...
August 24, 2016
By Amy Goodman Democracy Now!August 23, 2016 In North Dakota, more than a thousand indigenous activists from different tribes have converged at the Sacred Stone Spirit Camp,...
August 19, 2016
August 19, 2016The Lutheran World Federation General Secretary Junge at Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America   (LWI) – Key...
August 18, 2016
Full title: World Culture Festival: Sri Sri event destroyed Yamuna’s floodplain, biodiversity lost forever, expert panel to NGT AOL rejects allegation, says it is...
August 16, 2016
August 16, 2016By Catholic News ServiceNational Catholic Reporter As Louisiana’s governor announced the federal government had declared a major disaster for the state...
August 16, 2016
August 16, 2016By Joachim PhamNational Catholic Reporter Catholics in the central Vietnamese diocese of Vinh who attended feast of the Assumption celebrations Aug. 15 were...
August 15, 2016
August 15, 2016By Valerie Taliman Indian Country Today Media Network The controversial Dakota Access Pipeline project is back in the news. Over the weekend, tribal activists...
August 15, 2016
August 15, 2016By Lucy CormackThe Sydney Morning Herald Amelia Telford remembers the moment huge slabs of her country were swallowed by the sea. It was 2009 and a severe...
August 15, 2016
We’re under attack from climate change—and our only hope is to mobilize like we did in WWII.By Bill McKibbenNew RepublicAugust 15, 2016 In the North this summer,...
August 12, 2016
Assistant Professor in Religion and Environmental StudiesThe Department of Religion and the Department of Environmental StudiesSt. Olaf College, Northfield, MN,...
August 11, 2016
These Catholic social justice advocates are exemplars of the force behind We Are Seneca Lake, one of the nation’s longest-running campaigns of civil disobedience. By...
August 9, 2016
August 9, 2016By Father James Martin, SJCatholic San Francisco Jesuit Father James Martin, editor-at-large for America magazine, distilled the nearly 200 pages of “...
August 9, 2016
August 9, 2016By Sharon AbercrombieNational Catholic Reporter Environmentalists are mourning the death of Charity Sr. Paula Gonzalez, a Cincinnati nun who spent the last 45...
August 8, 2016
August 8, 2016By J. Malcolm GarciaGlobal Sisters Report Global Sisters Report is focusing a special series on mining and extractive industries and the women religious who...
August 6, 2016
August 6, 2016Oxford University Journals Since the beginning of time, religion and the environment have been two subjects that have continually crossed paths. Each year,...
August 5, 2016
August 4, 2016By Megan DarbyClimate Home The 8GW Sao Luiz do Tapajos hydropower project is expected to get the thumbs down from Brazilian regulators, in move cautiously...
August 4, 2016
August 4, 2016By Bill BlaikieiPolitics Last week, about 2 million young people — including nearly 4,000 Canadians — gathered in Poland to hear Pope Francis speak...
August 2, 2016
August 2016 Great Transition Initiative Theology can play a central role in defining the moral fiber of a society, including its commitment to poverty alleviation and...
August 2, 2016
August 1, 2016By Ruth McCambridgeNonprofit Quarterly On World Youth Day, celebrated this year in Krakow, Poland, an open letter signed by over 120 youth groups was delivered...