Barbara Fraser

Linda Chase has written an oratorio based on Pope Francis' environmental encyclical "Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home." "I am interpreting Laudato Si' as a call to action through music," she says.

'It is imperative that we don't go back to the systems that brought us here,' Tucson's Catholic mayor tells students.

Catholic investors are pressuring the Brazilian government to strengthen protection of the Amazon, while church groups warn that any U.S. policies on the Amazon must provide for the participation of Indigenous peoples.

Aura Lolita Chávez Ixcaquic is a K'iche Maya teacher and community leader in Guatemala. She talked with EarthBeat about being a defender of the environment and about being persecuted for trying to maintain a way of life for her people that is close to the land.

Aura Lolita Chávez Ixcaquic es maestra y lideresa maya k'iche de Guatemala. Habló con EarthBeat de su labor en defensa del medio ambiente y la persecución que sufre por mantener para su pueblo un modelo de vida vinculado a la tierra.

A group of researchers urges scientists, policymakers and the rest of us to talk realistically about the environmental challenges we face — and the consequences if we continue to avoid them.

The goal of clean, affordable energy for all by 2030 is likely to remain elusive without a sharp shift in investment and subsidies from fossil fuels to renewable sources.

Wider social change starts with individuals, whose actions do add up, experts say, and can also be compelling examples to policy makers when it comes to reducing carbon emissions, for example.

Although oceans play a crucial role in driving weather and regulating the global climate, we know less about them than we do about outer space.

As governments focus on the pandemic, illegal logging, gold mining and drug trafficking make inroads, with lethal consequences.

The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed profound inequities that have persisted for generations and increase vulnerability to climate change.

Native American communities suffer from high rates of chronic illnesses and often have limited access to safe water and fresh food. Climate change adds to their difficulties, with increasing bouts of extreme weather threatening residents' safety and health, as well as traditional means of healing.

Around the world, women stand up for the right to a clean and safe environment, often at risk to their own lives.

Johnson is known for her relentless battle against the evil that surrounded her neighborhood in the form of toxic dumps, lead paint and other pollution that sickened her neighbors and shortened their lives.

We are paying the price for ignoring warnings and failing to take steps to detect and protect against a pandemic virus and to winterize and modernize the country's electricity-generating equipment.

Reducing the Amazon Synod to married priests and women deacons ignores the lessons the U.S. church should learn from Amazonia.

Defending the environment is a matter of life or death for Indigenous people, traditional communities, small farmers, fisherfolk and others whose lives depend on healthy ecosystems.

The River Above Asia and Oceania Ecclesial Network calls attention to the relationship of the region's people with the ocean, forests and rivers, and the climate on which they all depend.

Davi Kopenawa, a Yanomami leader, shaman and "great hero of sustainability of the Amazon forests," has become the first Indigenous leader elected to the century-old Brazilian Academy of Sciences.

In U.N. survey, 1.2 million people from 50 countries show strong support for policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.