Numerous lawsuits have challenged the Trump administration's reversal of EPA's endangerment finding, the 2009 scientific determination that heat-trapping greenhouse gases pose a danger to public health and welfare.
The lead plaintiff in one of the lawsuits is a Catholic college student.
Climate change’s rising seas may threaten tens of millions more people than scientists and government planners originally thought because of mistaken research assumptions on how high coastal waters already are, a new study said.
NEW: The U.S. bishops are inviting Catholics to undergo an ecological conversion this Lent, a process of prayer and action that they said includes pressing government officials to protect the environment and address climate change.
A coalition of Christian leaders in Chicago has called on state and federal lawmakers to rapidly replace lead water pipes in Illinois, a state that ranks atop the nation in the toxic infrastructure that poses a danger to public health.
In a week, Ronald Hicks will be installed as the 14th archbishop of New York.
Catholics in NYC involved in environmental ministries are encouraged by Hicks' work as bishop of Joliet, IL on creation care, and hopeful he'll help root it even deeper into one of the country's largest dioceses.
The Trump administration's move to withdraw from the 1992 bedrock UN climate change treaty amounts to the US "abandoning its moral responsibility as a leading global power and as the world's largest historical contributor to greenhouse gas emissions," said the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns.
NEW: Inside the Trump administration’s man-made hunger crisis in the world’s third largest refugee camp.
After the U.S. failed to fund the World Food Program in Kenya, we went to the Kakuma refugee camp. This is what we found:
NEW: When the Trump administration took away her family’s food this summer, Rose Natabo had to choose which of her three sons to care for — who ate and who didn’t.
By Brett Murphy & @annamaria.bsky.social, photography by Brian Otieno
A small group of Catholics in the Washington D.C. Archdiocese celebrated last month planting their 1,000th tree through Laudato Trees, an initiative inspired by Pope Francis' 2015 social encyclical on ecology "Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home."
Countries at the U.N. climate talks did little to counteract papal criticism that "failing" political will is undermining global efforts to stave off dangerous levels of global warming, say Catholic officials who attended the COP30 summit in Belém, Brazil, at the edge of the Amazon rainforest.
BREAKING: COP30 Blue Zone venue is being evacuated after a firealarm was triggered. Smoke visible.
Archaic procedures and technocratic framing have failed to address the climate crisis for 30 years. Frustration over the lack of progress boiled over into a short occupation of the COP30 negotiation zone on day two of the climate talks in Brazil.
Global carbon emissions from fossil fuels are projected to rise to an all-time high this year, according to a report.
At this rate, it will take the world four years to pass the threshold experts agree would constitute catastrophic warming, the authors said.
NEW: The head of Caritas Internationalis, the Catholic Church's global aid network, said the massive scaleback in foreign assistance by the U.S., along with lesser cuts by European nations, signals "the golden age of aid being over."
"We will see millions of people die as a result of these cuts."
Last week, two waves of trucks supplied by Catholic Relief Services with tents and other shelter equipment rolled into Gaza.
Following the latest ceasefire, the Catholic development agency has begun to ramp up its work to assist millions of Palestinians recover and rebuild after two years of war.
Corals are disappearing, pushing Earth to its first major ‘tipping point’
A new report says Earth has reached a dire milestone with the widespread death of warm-water coral reefs. But it's not too late to save what remains.
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NEW: Ahead of the COP30 climate summit, the Holy See has pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the Vatican City-State at least 28% by 2035.
Key to those plans is a 1,000-acre solar farm outside Rome that is set to fully power the Vatican and make it the world’s first carbon-neutral state.
California governor rejects bill to phase out "forever" chemicals used in cookware, children's products
As Trump champions fossil fuels, the world is betting on renewable energy.
Despite a U.S. retreat, solar and wind are overtaking fossil fuels globally, according to two new reports.
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On Wednesday, the Pontiff delivered his first address on climate change at a conference taking place at the Papal Palace of Castel Gandolfo calling for a “true ecological conversion… that transforms both personal and communal lifestyles.” By @brianroewe.bsky.social
BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV bluntly called out inequality and indifference to the plight of the poor in the first major teaching document of his pontificate.
Two words continually rang out at a Vatican conference marking the 10-year anniversary of Pope Francis' socio-environmental encyclical "Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home."
Hope and heart.
Attendees saw both as pathways to draw more Catholics to the church's teachings on the environment.
In 2021, Jane Goodall on a Vatican-sponsored webinar said she draws hope for better environmental conservation from young people, science and Pope Francis.
"One of my reasons for hope is Pope Francis, because in that position ... his stand on the environment really has made a big difference."
Opening a global church summit to mark the 10-year anniversary of Pope Francis' papal letter Laudato Si', Pope Leo XIV affirmed his predecessor's ecological vision while calling on Catholics to ensure creation care does not become a fading trend or fall into tribalism.
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Catholic and other faith-based organizations, including the U.S. bishops, submitted nearly 10,000 comments opposing the Trump administration's attempt to revoke the "endangerment finding" that underpins federal regulations on polluting emissions that drive climate change and harm human health.
"Disappointed but not surprised," said Sr. Patty Johnson in response to nations' failure earlier this month to reach a treaty to reduce pollution from plastics and minimize its related harms to human health and ecosystems from plastics.
EarthBeat story for @ncronline.bsky.social
Nations worked for 11 days to try to complete a landmark treaty.
But they were deadlocked over whether the treaty should reduce exponential growth of plastic production and put global, legally binding controls on toxic chemicals used to make plastics. https://to.pbs.org/3HBzCv9
