Barbara Fraser

In many parts of the Amazon, lay leaders weave the fabric of Catholic communities together.

If we start seeing plants and animals as 'gente,' would that change the way we use the bounty of the natural world?

The week's unprecedented high temperatures coincided with climate protests and underscored the urgency of strengthening infrastructure to withstand extreme weather.

Everyday decisions about changing lifestyles, combined with community efforts, add up when it comes to caring for our common home.

A virtual event highlighted three farm-related projects where Catholics are living out Laudato Si', showing how groups can take part in the Vatican's recently launched Laudato Si' Action Platform.

Goldman Environmental Prize winner Liz Chicaje Churay says communities are committed to protecting the forest, but the pandemic has put many of their plans on hold.

Organizations are calling on the United Nations to designate the right to a clean, safe and healthy environment as a global human right, and to create a special rapporteur for climate and human rights.

The controversial Kaliwa Dam project has been plagued by accusations of corruption and of failure to gain the consent of local Indigenous communities.

Infrastructure was in the spotlight this week, as faith leaders rallied to support Biden's American Jobs Plan and a clean energy standard and joined protests against Enbridge Line 3 oil pipeline.

Church groups in Panama are protesting a new mining concession in a forested area near Indigenous communities and are calling for the government to protect the rights of communities affected by development projects.

Activist shareholders sent a strong message, but much remains to be done to bring about a shift to a greener economy.

A virtual conference sponsored by the Vatican and the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization discussed how the wisdom of Indigenous and other traditional peoples is essential to reducing the impacts of climate change.

Turning off video during virtual meetings and streaming at lower resolutions can help dial back the internet's growing use of energy, water and land.

Rising calls for divestment coincide with a groundbreaking report that states an immediate ban on new coal, oil and gas development is required to meet the Paris climate accord targets.

Angela Manno has created icons of endangered species — including a wolf, an orangutan mother and child, and a frog — in a series that emerged from the intersection of ecology, cosmology and Christianity.

Laudato Si' Week is an invitation to personal ecological conversion, but especially to a commitment to change as communities and as a society.

For Indigenous people all over the world, development of their lands continues, causing displacement, abuse, and the loss of their way and means of life — even murder. This is despite international treaties, say U.N. officials and advocates during a virtual event April 19-30.

EarthBeat asked six people how they stay spiritually rooted in the natural world even in the middle of the city or inside an apartment.

The relationship between nature's ability to regenerate and countries' purchasing power is largely ignored in economics textbooks and debates about development, researchers say.

Although more than half of U.S. adults think climate change should be addressed "right now," it still ranks behind the economy, the pandemic and immigration as a priority, a new poll finds.