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Maryland's 'historic' legislative session on climate change had strong Catholic support
… three decades, and cities like Annapolis will experience several damage-causing "moderate" floods a year by midcentury, compared to a few "nuisance" tidal floods now. The town halls, funded through small grants from the Victory Noll Sisters in …
Advocates ask Catholics to engage Congress on climate issues following IPCC report
… warmer since pre-industrial times, leading to more devastating natural disasters such as flooding, long-term drought, forest fires and stronger hurricanes, and the displacement of …
Latin American caravan asks Vatican to divest funding from mining corporations
… covers all of that." His experience of rebuilding the community of Brumadinho, which was flooded with more than 10 million cubic meters of toxic sludge, strikes at the heart of the …
Conference highlights links among climate change, health, racial justice
… Health impacts of climate change, whether from rising heat, air pollution or increased flooding, are not evenly felt across states or communities. "There are communities in our country …
St. Brigid, Ireland's female patron saint, gets less recognition than St. Patrick
… in the Middle Ages . These seem like modest observances compared with the massive parades that flood the main streets of towns around the globe in annual celebration of Patrick. This year on …
Evangelical scientist Katharine Hayhoe finds hope in United Nations' climate report
… unrelenting evidence the climate is changing: Heat waves in the summer are getting stronger, flooding is increasing, invasive species are moving into new areas. Still, the chief scientist … it back in the soil where we want it. Looking at how restoring wetlands can protect us from flooding and storm surges, but it can also take up carbon, too. Looking at how the transition to …
CRS Rice Bowl highlights climate adaptation to major cyclones in Bangladesh
… Brian Roewe … Flooding and extreme storms are an annual threat for many people in Bangladesh. In November 1970, … and can help families pay for better education. "This is how they have adapted to the floods," Mostafa said, adding that many farmers like Noorobi have shared what they've learned …
Making religious sense of climate change on small islands
… the ability of both nature and humanity to adapt, creating a harrowing future in which floods, fires and famine displace millions, species disappear and the planet is irreversibly … of God's disapproval of their immoral behavior and, at the same time, that they won't be flooded into oblivion. Why not? Because in the ninth chapter of the Bible's Book of Genesis, God … Noah after the waters recede, "Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of the flood." For Bertana, this rejection of the secular narrative of coastal degradation is " a form …
Why there's still hope among the gloom and doom of climate crisis
… extreme weather events. We will commit to not feet, but meters, of sea level rise, enough to flood the major cities and coastal regions of the world . Exactly how quickly that would play out …
New UN report 'rings the latest alarm bell' about climate change effects on nature and people
… energy but also by helping communities and countries that are facing increasing droughts, flooding and extreme weather now. She added that remaining dependent on burning fossil fuels for …
Yale, Stanford and MIT's fossil fuel investments are illegal, students say
… the environmental crisis had not passed Tennessee by. The state was hit by catastrophic flash flooding last year that killed 20 people and damaged hundreds of homes. "Environmental …