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Catholic action on environment set for massive multiplication this Laudato Si' Week
… seven sets of sustainability benchmarks. Among them: achieving carbon neutrality, reducing plastic use and meat consumption, incorporating ecological themes into liturgies and education, …
In Gaza, tiny Catholic community tries to stay in touch during airstrikes
… sleep at the parish, but the family decided to stay in their home and cover their windows with plastic until they can be repaired. Children are developing behavioral problems, Romanelli said. …
'I'm hopeful': Jerome Foster, the 18-year-old helping to craft US climate policy
… talking and the older man, who used a walking frame, acknowledged he was concerned about plastic pollution in the nearby Chesapeake Bay. "He didn't understand CO2 because he couldn't see it himself, but he understood how plastic pollution was a major impact on the climate crisis," Foster said. "He actually joined me, …
Scientists: Humans must respect these 9 boundaries to keep Earth habitable
… change, and release of novel chemicals (including heavy metals, radioactive materials, plastics, and more). Together, the stability of these nine processes is essential to maintaining … novel entities refers to harmful chemicals, materials, and other new substances (such as plastics), as well as naturally-occurring substances such as heavy metals and radioactive …
A Climate-Conscious Lent: Students challenge the world
… One challenged students to count how many days they can go without purchasing a single-use plastic item. Another offers steps toward simplifying one's life. And a third focuses on reducing …
Does your personal ecological conversion make a difference to the planet?
… Lent, turned down the thermostat a couple of degrees, or made a conscious effort to use less plastic. As the liturgical season draws to a close, you may wonder how to make that habit … with that country's environmental problems. "The smells, the sheer chaos of Indian cities, the plastic mountains everywhere in the streets, the rivers and the lakes that are bright green" …
EarthBeat Weekly: World and Vatican devote a week to Sister Water
… accounting. Joe Lo reports for Climate Home News. Despite some countries' efforts to reduce plastic waste, byproducts from fracking in the U.S. are fueling a boom in plastics manufacturing domestically and abroad, writes Beth Gardiner at National Geographic. And …
Life on Earth depends on healthy oceans, Vatican panelists say
… to communicate, said Antonio Di Natale, secretary general of Genoa's Aquarium Foundation. Plastics and microplastics are another problem, he said; not only are they potentially very … pollutants, which are toxic, and end up throughout the food chain. Rivers carry most of the plastics that end up in the ocean, he said, so efforts must be stepped up to keep rivers clean …
A Climate-Conscious Lent: Oceans choking on plastic
… Fr. Emmet Farrell … See … : … Studies project that by 2050, there could be more plastic in our oceans than fish . Researchers estimate that on average, 8 million metric tons of plastic trash enter the ocean every year, an amount that keeps increasing. This pollution is … torrent of oil and gas from the U.S. fracking boom — the fossil fuel industry is looking to plastics as a lifeline," writes Antonia Juhasz in Sierra Magazine. "Today, 14 percent of oil and …
As we pollute the oceans, sea life isn't alone at risk — our health is, too
… Global Health. The authors recommended ending the burning of coal and eliminating single-use plastics, which contribute to the more than 10 million tons of plastic waste that end up in oceans each year. "It's a big problem. It's a growing problem. It's … 70% of Earth's surface." It points out a myriad of threats to marine life, such as increasing plastic pollution, pollution from ships and underwater mining and drilling, and water …