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EarthBeat Weekly: Environmental justice, action, spirituality among top themes for 2021
… Sadowski at Catholic News Service notes that the coronavirus pandemic, record temperatures, wildfires and hurricanes were among the climate-related newsmakers , while parishes and dioceses …
Religion News Service: Our 11 best stories from a terrible year
… relief projects in the U.S., from hurricane cleanup to helping out after the West Coast wildfires. Khan's story was part of a series on the changing field of faith-based aid and …
Extreme heat, wildfires, storms marked advance of climate change in 2020
… Dennis Sadowski … Catholic News Service … Extreme global temperatures, wildfires and hurricanes continued to plague the planet during 2020, prompting U.N. … scientists said the changing climate worldwide fed more and stronger hurricanes, intense wildfires and rising coastal waters. Citing how climate change most negatively affects poor and … drought in parts of Australia, Siberia and the western U.S. and Canada fueled massive wildfires that claimed lives and destroyed entire communities. Extreme temperatures in Australia …
Christmas comes in Honduras amid post-hurricane devastation
… has brought an increase in the intensity and frequency of extreme weather events: droughts and wildfires on one hand, storms and hurricanes with accompanying floods on the other. In early …
How to rebuild California forests, with climate in mind
… Complex fires in the Sierras north of Sacramento, didn't burn in the usual patchy fashion of wildfires, leaving lightly singed spots mixed with more intensely burned islands. They torched … Research Institute in Las Vegas, has found that some Sierra forests that have regular smaller wildfires, and therefore a patchier canopy with more clearings, hold more snow than denser nearby …
Simple Advent, Abundant Life: do our part and be the tree
… to climate change. Not everyone acknowledges climate change, but a while back we had a lot of wildfires and that was because of climate change. Now if you don't recognize that climate change …
Faith groups have a key role to play in reducing climate-linked violence
… availability, crop viability, high heat, increased winds, drier conditions contributing to wildfires. All of these things have an incredible impact on water and food availability, on …
Advent is a time of both waiting and action on climate change
… time for Christ to renew the face of the Earth. For those of us who have watched closely as wildfires and hurricanes devastated our country in 2020, we are also waiting for the world to get …
EarthBeat Weekly: 'Love your local ecosystem'
… as the world warms, the heavily forested northeastern U.S. states may be at increasing risk of wildfires like the ones that scorched the West this year. The increasing frequency of flooding, …
EarthBeat Weekly: Amid East Africa climate crisis, church groups help farmers survive, adapt
… and stronger winds that come with rising global temperatures increase the likelihood of severe wildfires around the world, with short- and long-range health consequences , according to a new …
A new generation is making climate change a local election issue
… doesn't start to take decisive climate action. "We will continue to be plagued by droughts, wildfires and smoke, a lack of snowpack in our mountains and warming rivers," she says. "We need … to help residents adapt to the region's increasingly hotter summers and more destructive wildfires. Ogier advocates expanding sustainable housing, developing an "energy action plan" that …
Your thoughts on Catholics for Trump, bishops on Twitter, Pell's historic trial and more
… for my brethren, you do for me." California and the western part of the U.S. are suffering in wildfires, what has he done for those suffering or offered a prayer of sympathy? He does not …
'Creation needs Congress to act,' bishop tells US senators
… Vice President Joe Biden's faith outreach team, said climate change is evident in California's wildfires and the expansion of the desert in Africa's Sahel region. "Things are changing in our …
EarthBeat Weekly: Following in St. Francis' footsteps as Season of Creation ends
… in which the coronavirus pandemic is likely to combine with the impacts of severe storms and wildfires exacerbated by global warming . This week, EarthBeat's Roewe and biologist and science …
Unexpected climate question in debate spurs unsurprising responses
… and increased drought, which are linked to climate change, increase the likelihood of wildfires. Although changes in forest- and fire-management policies could reduce the severity of California's wildfires, they will not eliminate them, writes James Temple in MIT Technology Review. And …