The U.S. generates more than 280 pounds of plastic waste per person annually, and some of that reaches the ocean. A new government-funded study calls for greater efforts to tackle that.
Gregory Asner has seen the devastating impact of a warming ocean on coral reefs in his home state of Hawaii. He has been studying coral up close for the past half-dozen years, logging some 16,000 dives on reefs around the world.
In naming their Laudato Si' initiative after martyred Sr. Dorothy Stang, the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in Ohio honor her legacy of love for the environment and desire to protect the rainforest of Brazil.
