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… Donald Trump in this past election. The hate and violence perpetrated by this cultish leader flooded our living rooms and our lives in shocking realities. While some of the marauders upheld …

… into actual resilience against climate change impacts ranging from wildfires, droughts and floods to sea-level rise. Fewer than five out of 100 adaptation projects have yielded any …

… the world. "We've got throughout East Africa a locust infestation. Drought in some places and floods in others. Plus there's endemic climate change-induced problems and the COVID pandemic. So …

… Christine Schenk … Of all the shocking images that flooded our screens on Jan. 6, I am most outraged by a flag bearing the name of Jesus carried by …

… and bridges. But we're getting a climate bomb pipeline instead. Enbridge would like to start flooding the north country with oil, as quick as it can. The Red Lake and White Earth tribes and …

… and limiting the threats that accompany rising temperatures, such as increased droughts, flooding and destructive storms. Emily Burke, a senior at Creighton and one of the leaders in its …

… 50 miles inland, Aug. 27 with 135-mph winds and torrential rains that caused widespread flooding. Much of the diocese's infrastructure sustained serious damage, as dozens of churches, … storm of the year on the planet, left 25 people dead and thousands of people displaced by flooding and wide-scale destruction of homes and farms. It was the second super typhoon of the …

… weather events: droughts and wildfires on one hand, storms and hurricanes with accompanying floods on the other. In early November, Hurricane Eta made landfall in Honduras and dropped … Iota followed Eta's path, pouring water for days on already saturated lands and causing flood damage to housing, infrastructure and crops. Housing in the north, center and west of the country was flooded for up to three weeks in places like Pimienta, pictured above. Flash floods came at 2 …

… Taylor and other victims of police violence, and of the fellow citizens of all colors who flooded the streets to demand that Black Lives Matter. Sadly, it was also a year in which …

… due to burning fossil fuels that could "jeopardize food supplies" and "trigger catastrophic flooding." It looked like the wait was over, too, for international action: 194 countries signed …

… was just one more threat to the hundreds of millions of people hanging by a thread because of floods, invasion of locusts, droughts and tropical cyclones. We should dedicate all the media …

… regions have lost nearly 80,000 acres of plantains, bananas, coffee, beans, rice and corn. Flooding also threatens more than 400,000 acres of sugarcane and oil palm plantations. … Drought, … change means that the rain, when it comes, is more intense and comes in the form of storms and flooding," he added. "This is what experts and scientists predicted, and now we are living it in …

… somehow from time to time to celebrate Mass and wrote: "Every now and then my whole being is flooded with pulsating life and my heart can scarcely contain the delirious joy there is in it. …

… risk of wildfires like the ones that scorched the West this year. The increasing frequency of flooding, especially in coastal states, poses a risk for taxpayer-funded mortgage providers , …

… Bhashan Char, or floating island. It was once regularly submerged by monsoon rains but now has flood protection embankments, houses, hospitals and mosques built at a cost of more than $112 …

At Politico, a report on Gabriel Sterling , the Republican appointee who is voting systems manager for the Georgia Secretary of State's office. Sterling, rightly, is defending the integrity of the elections just conducted and, unlike most Republican officeholders, condemning President Donald Trump's questioning of that integrity. If he can do it, why can't Sen. Mitch McConnell? Sterling earns my…, Editor's note: , Don't miss out on Michael Sean Winters' latest.  Sign up  and we'll let you know when he publishes new Distinctly Catholic columns.

… her and her sisters to China, but he sent her to the United States instead to care for the flood of Italian immigrants arriving here.  Pope Francis hoped to be sent by his Jesuit superiors …

… the McCarrick report. I was on vacation in Santa Fe, New Mexico, hiding from the apocalypse — flooding in New Orleans, fires out West, COVID-19 everywhere. Lena brooded about the burning …

… reports David Agren for Catholic News Service. And in Africa, which is already grappling with flooding, drought and locusts, sea level rise is causing coastal flooding and threatening to contaminate drinking water and irrigation systems with salt water. …

… displacement and stress on water resources. In recent months, we have seen devastating floods, an invasion of desert locusts and now face the looming specter of drought because of a La … sea levels in Africa. Saint-Louis stands no more than 4 meters above sea level, and coastal flooding has already forced schools, mosques and homes to be abandoned . Saltwater intrusion has …