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At Home in Creation: The unquenchable fire in our heart
… this reflection now. We also know that fire can be destructive, and we feel this acutely as wildfires continue to rage on the West Coast of the United States. Burning unprecedented …
EarthBeat Weekly: The US budget bill will have consequences for the global climate, too
… pollution in Louisiana's "Cancer Alley." In Brazil, Catholic leaders have decried not just the wildfires raging in the Amazon Basin and other important ecosystems, but also the human …
Catholics decry fires in Brazil and their underlying causes
… Eduardo Campos Lima … As a great wildfire threatened to engulf the village of Forte Coimbra, a district of the city of Corumbá on … Although fires near Forte Coimbra were extinguished after burning for four days, major wildfires continue to sweep through Corumbá and other parts of the Pantanal, the world's largest …
At Home in Creation: God is as close as your next breath
… … ACT … Bring to mind anyone who is affected by air pollution, poor air quality due to wildfires or an increase in air temperatures and humidity, and say a prayer for them. Include …
EarthBeat Weekly: What 'meaningful sacrifices' will we make so future generations enjoy a better world?
… … Derek Gatopoulos at the Associated Press reports that Greece, which battled devastating wildfires in recent months, has created a new ministry to address the impacts of climate change , …
Faith groups press Congress to pass $3.5T bill as political, moral imperative for climate action
… from Ida coming ashore in the Gulf as one of the strongest storms to hit the U.S. to historic wildfires out west — show the impacts of climate change that scientists have predicted for …
Editorial: $3.5 trillion human infrastructure bill tackles US inequalities
… $135 billion to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry will be used to deal with wildfires, drought and the reduction of carbon emissions. After the summer we have just had, with wildfires scorching large parts of the American West and drought threatening the nation's farms, …
EarthBeat Weekly: Convergence of COVID-19 and climate change is unmistakable call to action
… Barbara Fraser … With wildfires blazing in the western United States and Canada and a hurricane that caused destruction … contradiction, the western U.S. is suffering from drought and heat waves that are exacerbating wildfires, while in the Northeast, record-breaking precipitation fell on soil already soaked from … they later lifted restrictions except near wildfires. To the north, in Canada, an interactive wildfire information map shows scores of fires at various stages of control . Many of the …
Follow youth toward environmental sustainability, Pope Francis says
… national forests were closed Tuesday for two weeks in an effort to limit danger as extreme wildfires — exacerbated by historically dry conditions — continue to burn across the state and …
EarthBeat Weekly: We've turned the heat up in cities, so how can we cool them down?
… that led to decades of fire suppression in public forests created conditions that fuel wildfires now , especially when combined with our warming climate. Under pressure from Republican …
EarthBeat Weekly: Climate change is the most critical environmental justice issue facing the world today
… Eucharist is a profound act of hope ," writes NCR contributor Rebecca Collins Jordan. As wildfires rage in Greece, the secretary-general of the country’s Catholic bishops' conference has …