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EarthBeat Weekly: Facing the future with the world on fire
… that's happened in 2020 with COVID-19, economic collapse, racial injustice and record-setting wildfire and hurricane seasons. "But there is something that I can tangibly do this year to make … fire; the other is in an apartment in Chicago. But now some of the smoke from the West Coast's wildfires has darkened the sky in the Midwest and even on the East Coast. The hazy air is a …
Editorial: Catholics must vote their conscience this election
… may not survive. Meanwhile, the effects of global warming are here and visible in raging wildfires on the West Coast, the increasing number and strength of hurricanes and tropical …
Election 2020: How seven climate-conscious young Christians are deciding their vote
… and ensuing economic collapse, protests against racism and police brutality, record-setting wildfire and hurricane seasons — she's left with an atypical feeling: relief. "I think I'm … … Bianca Pahler, 18 … 'We can't go back to what we were doing' This summer's massive wildfires haven't tinted the skies above Bianca Pahler's hometown of Livermore, California, to … Francisco is a sauna. It's like a volcano in the sky. It's pretty creepy." The record-breaking wildfires and corresponding drops in air quality are ways Pahler sees climate change playing out …
Earthbeat Weekly: What's one thing we can all do about climate change? Talk about it
… massive power outages. And we've been warned about heat and drought, which make unrelenting wildfires like those ravaging the western United States — and affecting air quality as far away …
Environment, other issues beyond abortion are critical in voting, bishop says
… The Catholic Climate Covenant webinar series , the second held Monday, played out as historic wildfires blazed through the West and as the Gulf Coast braced for Hurricane Sally, the latest …
EarthBeat Weekly: Pope Francis' ecological conversion on the way to Laudato Si'
… … In other climate-related news this week: … As record high temperatures exacerbate wildfires raging across the western United States, Drew Kann and Brandon Miller at CNN note that … shows fires burning from Texas north to Montana and west to the Pacific coast. It may be the wildfires or this year's punishing hurricane season, but three out of four Americans say they … by the Trump administration's Commodity Futures Trading Commission concluded that the costs of wildfires and extreme weather driven by climate change will threaten U.S. financial markets , …
How to become a climate-resilient church
… This year, hurricanes have pummelled communities along the coast, wildfires have devastated land in the West, and floods ravage the midwest. The climate crisis is …
Introducing EarthBeat's 'Lens on Creation' series for the Season of Creation 2020
… a drought? Might you think of a vast forest charred to shades of gray and black by devastating wildfires? Creation can mean many things to many people. Often, it depends upon the environment …
EarthBeat Weekly: A legacy of rollbacks
… Barbara Fraser … Between drought and wildfire in the western United States and hurricanes like Laura becoming more frequent, it's hard … of climate change. This year's hurricanes and other severe storms, as well as the western wildfires, are still likely to be on people's minds in November. And there are links between … earth and the cry of the poor are one cry." This year's fierce hurricane season, the heat and wildfires in the West and the derecho windstorm that struck Iowa are all signs of the climate …
Climate chaos: Extreme heat, wildfires and record-setting storms suggest a frightening future is already here
… Jeff Berardelli … CBS NEWS … From the historic heat wave and wildfires in the West, to the massive derecho that tore through the middle of the nation, to the … University, happened to be in Australia on sabbatical last year and witnessed the devastating wildfires there — a similar scene to what is playing out in California right now. For years Mann … It does not stop at a new state. That change is what is so disruptive," he said. … California wildfires … The fires unfolding in California right now have no parallel in modern times. With …
Copy Desk Daily, Aug. 26, 2020
… together in the classroom." … Bishop Cantú: Californians 'on edge' as historic wildfires rage: … "People are just stunned, with the pandemic and the downturn in the economy and the racial issues and then on top of that, the wildfires," Bishop Oscar Cantú of San Jose told Catholic News Service. "It makes you wonder, what …
Bishop Cantú: Californians 'on edge' as historic wildfires rage
… stay home as air quality diminished in some parts of the state because of some of the largest wildfires in California history. "People are just stunned, with the pandemic and the downturn in the economy and the racial issues and then on top of that, the wildfires," said Bishop Oscar Cantú, head of the Diocese of San Jose in an Aug. 24 interview with …
Links between theology, COVID-19 and climate change
… while tens of thousands of people in California have been exacuated due to devastating wildfires. These climate-fueled calamities are happening with the backdrop of COVID-19. Fires and …
EarthBeat Weekly: Wildfires blaze a climate warning
… we see similar patterns. Images of orphaned koalas went viral at the beginning of 2020 when wildfires raged in Australia, killing dozens of people and destroying thousands of homes. The … especially on peatlands in Indonesia and Malaysia. A lightning strike is unlikely to spark a wildfire in the Amazon basin, because the tropical forest is too wet to burn for very long. …
With Biden, Democrats' platform links climate, justice, jobs
… what would be among the hottest temperatures reliably recorded on the planet. Meanwhile, wildfires are raging in other parts of California, and the Southeast and Atlantic states face one … to the convention Thursday the scene on the ground a mile away from one of the state's 370 wildfires: "The hots are getting hotter, the dries are getting drier. Climate change is real. If …
Executive actions seen providing minimal boost to economy hit hard by COVID-19
… to tap the $44 billion in federal disaster relief funds appropriated for hurricanes and wildfires to pay for the new unemployment insurance allotments. Analysts said the amount would …
How the global climate fight could be lost if Trump is reelected
… of optimism in 2015, has seen the five hottest years ever recorded on Earth, unprecedented wildfires torching towns from California to Australia , record heatwaves baking Europe and …
Theologian praises Ireland's green new deal but questions: Will it happen?
… his book during a 2018-19 sabbatical at the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, California, wildfires in the state killed more than 100 people, destroyed some 140,000 acres of trees, and …
A pandemic and surging summer heat leave thousands struggling to pay utility bills
… bills won't have respite." Other extreme weather events related to climate change, such as wildfires and hurricanes, can also damage the power grid, she added. Covid-19 is magnifying the … bills any given month are the people who will be most affected by hurricanes, heat waves and wildfires." … Covid-19 is Magnifying an Already Big Problem … Nearly a third of American …
Brazil's Indigenous communities are being devastated by COVID-19
… the virus with them." Porto Velho Archbishop Roque Paloschi, CIMI's president, said that wildfires set by invaders also have the potential to increase the dissemination of respiratory …