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We send the EarthBeat Weekly newsletter on Fridays. It includes links to what's new on EarthBeat, NCR's special section on care for creation, as well as links to articles published elsewhere that we think you'll be interested in.

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EarthBeat Weekly: Climate science is clear — it's time for 'hard choices' based on faith values

by Barbara Fraser
Apr 16, 2021

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

EarthBeat Weekly: World needs to move more decisively to avoid 'a ghastly future'

by Barbara Fraser
Apr 9, 2021

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.

EarthBeat Weekly: A Peruvian Holy Thursday when lightbulbs trumped candles

by Barbara Fraser
Apr 2, 2021

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.

EarthBeat Weekly: World and Vatican devote a week to Sister Water

by Barbara Fraser
Mar 26, 2021

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.

EarthBeat Weekly: Organized crime threatens Amazonian Indigenous communities

by Barbara Fraser
Mar 19, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: Pandemic, like climate change, highlights racial injustices

by Barbara Fraser
Mar 12, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: Three women leading in defense of the environment

by Barbara Fraser
Mar 5, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: Lessons for Catholics from life of Hazel Johnson, 'mother of environmental justice'

by Barbara Fraser
Feb 26, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: Pandemic, storms call us to make peace with the planet

by Barbara Fraser
Feb 19, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: A year after 'Querida Amazonia,' some lessons for the U.S. church

by Barbara Fraser
Feb 12, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: Environment defenders face dual threat of climate change, murder

by Barbara Fraser
Feb 5, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: Forest conservation, clean energy, green jobs get thumbs up in global poll

by Barbara Fraser
Jan 29, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: The hurdles facing Biden's climate plans

by Barbara Fraser
Jan 22, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: Fossil fuels fade, but pipeline protests persist

by Barbara Fraser
Jan 15, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: Racial inequality colors response to environmental protests

by Barbara Fraser
Jan 8, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: Environmental justice, action, spirituality among top themes for 2021

by Barbara Fraser
Jan 1, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: In Amazonian Nativity scenes, Jesus is born in midst of everyday life

by Barbara Fraser
Dec 25, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Biden picks signal seat at table for environmental justice

by Barbara Fraser
Dec 18, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Indigenous leaders call for voice, vote in climate talks

by Barbara Fraser
Dec 11, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: 'Love your local ecosystem'

by Barbara Fraser
Dec 4, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: In Advent, simple living brings abundant life

by Barbara Fraser
Nov 27, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: World's hunger for gold deadly for miners, environment

by Barbara Fraser
Nov 20, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Where will we go when home gets too hot?

by Barbara Fraser
Nov 13, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Election reminds us that climate issues are local, too

by Barbara Fraser
Nov 6, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Looking back at a year of EarthBeat

by Brian Roewe
Oct 30, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Amid East Africa climate crisis, church groups help farmers survive, adapt

by Barbara Fraser
Oct 23, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: There's still time to act on climate change

by Barbara Fraser
Oct 16, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Church awareness of Amazon destruction increasing, but still not enough, indigenous leaders say

by Barbara Fraser
Oct 9, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Following in St. Francis' footsteps as Season of Creation ends

by Barbara Fraser
Oct 2, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Facing the future with the world on fire

by Madeleine Davison, Lucy Grindon
Sep 25, 2020

Earthbeat Weekly: What's one thing we can all do about climate change? Talk about it

by Barbara Fraser
Sep 18, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Pope Francis' ecological conversion on the way to Laudato Si'

by Barbara Fraser
Sep 11, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Justice means safe water for all

by Barbara Fraser
Sep 4, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: A legacy of rollbacks

by Barbara Fraser
Aug 28, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Wildfires blaze a climate warning

by Barbara Fraser
Aug 21, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Indigenous peoples face multiple risks

by Barbara Fraser
Aug 14, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: How Isaias, COVID-19 and Beirut connect to climate change

by Barbara Fraser
Aug 7, 2020

EB Weekly: EarthBeat gets a big boost in funding and a new editor

by Bill Mitchell
Jul 31, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Re-imagining how we get where we're going

by Bill Mitchell
Jul 24, 2020

EB Weekly: Revisiting integral ecology amid the heat wave and surging coronavirus

by Bill Mitchell
Jul 17, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Where 100 or more of us are gathered…

by Bill Mitchell
Jul 10, 2020

How to close the gap between public opinion and public policy on the climate crisis?

by Bill Mitchell
Jul 3, 2020

Need an encouraging boost? Check out our Interfaith Climate Tracker

by Bill Mitchell
Jun 26, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Discerning what the Vatican really means when it comes to divestment

by Bill Mitchell
Jun 19, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Faith climate leaders speak out on racial injustice

by Brian Roewe
Jun 12, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Why racial and environmental justice are so linked

by Bill Mitchell
Jun 4, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Introducing the author of 'Digging into 'Laudato Si''

by Bill Mitchell
May 29, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Shifting the terms of the debate

by Jesse Remedios
May 15, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Pulitzers spotlight climate coverage

by Bill Mitchell
May 8, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Throwaway plastics strike back amid the pandemic

by Brian Roewe
May 1, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: The story behind the story of an Earth Day unlike any other

by Bill Mitchell
Apr 24, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: 50 years of Earth Day

by Bill Mitchell
Apr 17, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Nothing but blue skies - for now

by Bill Mitchell
Apr 10, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: The challenge of online activism

by Jesse Remedios
Apr 3, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: An eco-streaming guide while we're cooped up by coronavirus

by Brian Roewe
Mar 28, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Solidarity key to addressing both the climate crisis and the pandemic

by Bill Mitchell
Mar 20, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Going to school on coronavirus

by Bill Mitchell
Mar 14, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Meet the author of our Lenten Daily Food Reflections

by Bill Mitchell
Mar 7, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Catholic climate group training local leaders

by Bill Mitchell
Feb 29, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: A new idea for Lent

by Bill Mitchell
Feb 22, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Taking the pope at his word

by Bill Mitchell
Feb 15, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Catholics, climate and the choice for president

by Bill Mitchell
Feb 7, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: The story behind the story of having kids amid climate crisis

by Bill Mitchell
Feb 1, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Speaking truth to power in a pink hoodie at Davos

by Bill Mitchell
Jan 24, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: The planet as patient

by Bill Mitchell
Jan 18, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Parish survey -- What are you doing to address climate change?

by Bill Mitchell
Jan 13, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Stepping into the new year with hope -- and a question

by Bill Mitchell
Jan 4, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Experiencing Advent where wildlife runs free

by Bill Mitchell
Dec 21, 2019

EarthBeat Weekly: We hear you, Greta. So here's the climate science

by Brian Roewe
Dec 16, 2019

EarthBeat Weekly: Bypassing Black Friday to #OptOutside

by Brian Roewe
Dec 9, 2019

EarthBeat Weekly: Listening to students (thousands of them)

by Bill Mitchell
Nov 25, 2019

EarthBeat Weekly: Time for a veggie Thanksgiving

by Bill Mitchell
Nov 15, 2019

EarthBeat Weekly: 11,224 scientists 'telling it like it is'

by Bill Mitchell
Nov 9, 2019