Fordham University’s student graduation speaker was motivated by her faith to call for “zero emissions, zero excuses and zero time to waste.”
Climate Change
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Pope Francis: Mitigate global warming and spare further injustice to poor
Faced with a climate emergency, the world must act immediately to mitigate global warming and avoid committing “a brutal act of injustice” on the poor and future generations, Pope Francis told a group of energy and oil executives and global investors.
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Review: What can we do about rising sea levels?
A new book on sea-level rise by Elizabeth Rush is a welcome addition to the small but growing canon on what the changing climate means for U.S. residents.
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Pope Francis: ‘Startling’ inaction on climate change must end
If the world is to win the fight against climate change, its leaders must stop profiting from fossil fuels that threaten the survival and well-being of the planet and its inhabitants, Pope Francis said.
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Conservationists at Vatican conference call for protecting biodiversity
“We can learn how to take care of the world. And we must use all our strength to find ways of making the world more human, giving people the possibility to live their lives so that we may share the richness and the resources given to us in a way that could never be possessed or owned by us.”
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The threat of a climate catastrophe is here. Will U.S. Catholics heed the call?
Will U.S. Catholics heed the call to take global action immediately? Or will our children and grandchildren live in a world drastically changed and terribly broken?
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How the University of San Francisco became the first Jesuit university to go carbon neutral
The Jesuit university has achieved carbon neutrality through energy efficiency and also through the financial support of reforestation projects and other green initiatives around the world.
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African floods ‘wiped out entire villages’ after cyclone, says Jesuit
A Jesuit from the Zimbabwe-Mozambique province has said that the recent cyclone that hit Africa has “wiped out entire villages”; 2 million people have been affected and more than 700 people have been killed by the storm.
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Bishops say EPA plan to roll back pollution rule would harm the unborn
The bishops argued in a March 22 statement that the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, or MATS, are needed to protect pregnant women as well.
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Perilous times on the way for kids hit by Cyclone Idai
According to estimates, 900,000 children have been orphaned or separated from their families as a result of Cyclone Idai, which has devastated the African countries of Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi.