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Venice should be a livable city, not a 'display case,' archbishop says
… hard hit, like others, by the drop in tourism due to the COVID-19 pandemic and by increased flooding the past two years, he said. St. Mark's Basilica is in dire need of funding for repair, restoration and protection from future floods, he said. Given these varied concerns, he said, including a need for more sustainable …
Jesuit John O'Malley's memoir tells his 'strange and wonderful story'
… us to a scholar well aware of what was happening around him: the November 4, 1966, great flood of Florence (which took place when he was there), the 1967 riots in Detroit (where shortly …
German bishop: Floods' mental health toll might be worse than property damage
… Catholic News Service … Dealing with the aftermath of the recent floods in parts of Germany will be a long-haul effort for people, said Bishop Stephan Ackermann … ecumenical service in Aachen cathedral Aug. 28 to commemorate the at least 160 victims of the flooding in the country, announced the German bishops' conference and the Protestant Church in … are expected to attend. In their joint statement, Bätzing and Bedford-Strohm said: "The flood catastrophe wiped out human lives and destroyed livelihoods. The many dead, those mourning …
EarthBeat Weekly: Laudato Si' reminds us that ecological conversion must be communal
… perfect conditions for wildfires in the U.S. West, the burning tundra in Siberia, the deadly flooding in parts of Europe, India and Africa. Those events, combined with the pandemic, are …
Climate change, COVID point to need for radical turn to small farmers
… Those changes make farmers less able to withstand weather-related disasters like drought or flooding, which have displaced millions of people in Africa in recent years. And scientists …
Big Oil and Gas kept a dirty secret for decades. Now they may pay the price
… and global averages, said scorching temperatures and "mega-rains" have devastated farming and flooded people out of their homes, with low income and minority families most at risk. …
Laudato Si' calls us to radical abundance through economic 'degrowth'
… and Italian ears because these words mean "a river returning to its regular flow after a flood." Whereas capitalism seeks to control and extract value from the web of ecological …
EarthBeat Weekly: New Peruvian bishop shaped by 'the Amazonian face of the church'
… parish in Iquitos, they took me to meet families living in a neighborhood that periodically flooded with waste from city sewers, a slaughterhouse and a hospital. In encouraging people to … that Catholic Church leaders in Germany offered prayers and emergency assistance after severe flooding killed more than 200 people and left hundreds more missing. And in a role reversal, … battered by extreme weather this week. Record rainfall in China's Henan province caused deadly flooding and forced thousands from their homes, according to the BBC. And floodwaters swamped …
Role reversal: Developing nations express concern to flood-hit Germany
… Catholic News Service … The images of flooded villages and towns in Germany have shocked the world, prompting aid agencies in … a small consolation for the people who lost loved ones as well as their belongings in the flood," said Florian Ripka, managing director of Aid to the Church in Need Germany. Ripka said … After the heat and drought of past years, "the inconceivable catastrophe of heavy rain and floods" now was an illustration of climate change, he told KNA. In addition to immediate …
Rich nations 'must consign coal power to history,' says UK COP26 president
… aimed at preventing devastating and extreme weather events such as heatwaves, colder winters, floods and droughts. "I've been very clear that I want COP 26 to be the COP where we consign coal … year, but many countries still finance and plan to build new coal plants. After catastrophic floods swept across northwest Europe last week and as wildfires continue to rage across southern …
Gentrification strikes Miami's Little Haiti as beach residents flee rising water
… flow across Collins Avenue as passing cars creep along leaving small wakes. This "sunny day flooding," as it's called, happens frequently now in Miami Beach, as the sea encroaches inland … the neighborhood known as Little Haiti, under the same sunny sky, streets are dry. There's no flooding because it's on the Miami Rock Ridge , a limestone deposit formed about 130,000 years … live fewer than 4 feet above the high-tide line, making them particularly vulnerable to flooding from storm surges. Miami-Dade and Broward counties each have more residents in that risk …