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… communities in the United States and around the world. Illegal and often unregulated mining, as well as other exploitative extractive activities, threaten Indigenous Peoples' …

… models, the communities that  share their water and power with data centers, the workers who mine the raw materials for high-performance chips, and the creators who contribute to the …

… planning is underway for Leo to make the trip. "Unity has always been a constant concern of mine," the new pope told his guests, pointing to the motto he chose when he became a bishop in …

… Francis  addressed 100,000 of the faithful in Puerto Maldonado, Peru, not far from where gold mining had ravaged an expanse of Amazon rainforest about the size of Colorado. "The native …

… 2,400 acres — including the centuries-old Western Apache sacred site, Oak Flat — to a foreign mining company while the U.S. Supreme Court considers a separate appeal on religious protection … April 17 it would publish in 60 days a final environmental impact statement on a copper mine proposed by Resolution Copper, a subsidiary of international mining conglomerates Rio Tinto and BHP. That federal report, compiled by the U.S. Forest Service, …

… policies against nature, laws that threaten it. In the Amazon, there's oil production, illegal mining, deforestation, pollution of our Marañón River." People who stand up for territorial …

… it in private." According to the anthropologist — in a region infested by corruption, illegal mining and organized crime — "we know" of several harsh letters in which he chastised the locals. …

… Ribat, a member of the Laudato Si' Movement advisory council, has  opposed deep seabed mining in the Pacific over concerns it damages undersea ecosystems and disturbs fishing grounds. …

… into hibernation, waiting for regeneration. I spent many years trying to stop open-cast coal mining, opium cultivation and stone – sand extraction. The people united, there was success in … leaving behind huge open pits, barren land, and the expulsion of people — slaves to the mining mafia. Yet I hear Nature telling us: Life cannot be annihilated — birthing and resilience …

… celebrating Mass to make it look like he was holding up various random items. A favorite of mine was the viral image of Francis surrounded by African clergy, looking like he was  rapping …

… $880 million to 1,353 survivors who filed later grievances. Mahony's tarred history can be mined at BishopAccountability.org, the online archive that since 2003 has gathered documents on a …

… a centuries-old sacred site for Native Americans here in southeastern Arizona, to a foreign mining company. The renewed pursuit of legal relief by Apache Stronghold, while a separate appeal … notice on plans to publish a final environmental impact statement for the proposed copper mine. Publishing that report sets in motion the transfer of 2,400 acres, including Oak Flat, to … impact statement, compiled by the U.S. Forest Service, impacts from the planned copper mining on tribal sacred sites, as well as cultural and biological resources, "would be immediate, …

… will have on working class people. Those who work in the extraction industries — in coal mines and on oil rigs — have good paying, union jobs. What is their immediate future if the mine closes, or the oil is left in the ground? Expecting workers to put concern for the ozone …

… in rural Appalachia — where one grandfather was a preacher and the other worked in the coal mines and then an aluminum plant — loved and supported me, but they mostly thought climate change …

… He placed the church  in solidarity with Indigenous communities facing threats from mining and extractions. He criticized the  pillaging of natural resources in the Global South by …

… Birthdays, Easter, Christmas — he always remembered. "He never forgets my birthday, not only mine but also those of my cousins. I asked him, 'Giorgio, do you have a calendar where you write …

… human activity. Extreme industrial agriculture, non-native sitka spruce plantations, drained/mined peat bogs, bald and overgrazed mountains, and other human actions have degraded local …

… between Catholics and evangelicals. "Religious freedom is kind of the canary in the coal mine for the jeopardy of all human rights," said the commission's chair, Stephen Schneck. The …

… the issue of racially divided Catholic parishes. Even in a multicultural archdiocese such as mine, Galveston-Houston, the existence of effectively segregated Black Catholic communities can …

… Dario Bossi, a member of the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil's Special Commission on Mining and Integral Ecology, argued that climate change denialism is generally connected to … and crises," he said. The integral ecology theme was suggested two years ago by the mining and integral ecology commission, a group headed by Bishop Vicente de Paula Ferreira and …