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… Like the rock in the desert Moses struck to find water, Peter would be broken to release the flood of tears that would baptize all the Apostles for their ministry. The temptation to …
EarthBeat Weekly: Wildfires blaze a climate warning
… residents of 27 provinces in China's Yangtze River Valley have evacuated to escape the worst flooding since 1961 . Climate change will make that problem worse, as Lili Pike reports for …
EarthBeat Weekly: How Isaias, COVID-19 and Beirut connect to climate change
… links to climate change. Some years back, when I was covering a landslide caused by a flash flood, which had destroyed homes and displaced residents of a small town in the Andes, I referred … decisions and could have been avoided if the community, which had suffered a landslide from flooding in the same ravine years before, had been rebuilt outside of the danger zone. Every time …
Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: When the disciples do as Jesus did
… as sports figures. Of course, we've seen similar responses after a hurricane, tornado, flooding, etc., but COVID-19 is unique in human history because it happened in the age of mass …
EB Weekly: EarthBeat gets a big boost in funding and a new editor
… University found that extreme heat is causing more deaths than hurricanes, tornadoes or floods in most years . Mary Durran of Catholic News Service reports on a virtual assembly of …
How the global climate fight could be lost if Trump is reelected
… up their ambition levels until the more extreme ravages of climate change, such as dire flooding, heatwaves, crop failures and the loss of coral reefs, are avoided. "There's been less …
Deadly heat is killing Americans: Inaction on climate puts lives at risk
… heat caused at least 10,000 deaths between 1999 and 2016 – more than hurricanes, tornadoes or floods in most years. Scientists link the warming planet to a rise in dangerous heat in the US, …
Editorial: A justice department that doesn't act justly
… But one move is a direct contradiction of Catholic teaching. The same week that federal agents flooded Portland, the Department of Justice, under Barr, resumed capital punishment, putting to …
Theologian praises Ireland's green new deal but questions: Will it happen?
… look at the amount of money that the U.S. has had to plow in every year because of drought, flooding and fires." But despite these signals from nature, none of the six parishes he attended …
US bishops' anti-poverty program puts Laudato Si' into action with $500,000 grant
… land farther from the coast currently used for affordable housing as stronger storms push flooding inland, Aeschbury told EarthBeat. And as climate change fuels more powerful hurricanes, …
Mary
… she arrives. Peter, broken by failure, full of fear, opens the door and lets morning light flood the room and the huddled enclave of men who still refuse to imagine what a woman’s tears …
COVID-19 is more than a public health challenge: It's a moral test
… because they got sick or lost their jobs. The last thing we need during the pandemic is a flood of evictions putting more people on the streets. Small landlords who have lost rental …
Ugandan climate activist: 'We are a climate generation and this is our fight'
… and desertification — only to find polluted air, contaminated waters, plastic pollution and floods in urban areas. A presentation by Green Climate Campaign Africa at my university taught …
Copy Desk Daily, July 9, 2020
… Indigenous peoples, but they're also taking the virus with them." In India, … migrant workers flood Goa beaches for jobs; sisters help them fit in … . This latest entry in GSR's … A Place to …
How a police chief helped Camden disband its force and bring crime down
… the kids, get to know the neighborhoods. Broadway, one of the city's main thoroughfares, was flooded with police, and the most blatant forms of open-air daylight drug dealing were pushed …
For Appalachia pastors, reopening means walking with the poor and vulnerable
… Don Clemmer … A flood ravaged Preston County in rural West Virginia in 1985. In its wake, a Catholic youth …
Threat multiplier: The impacts of climate change on refugees
… that suggest that 25 people every minute are displaced due to severe weather events such as floods and storms and droughts. … EarthBeat: What's the difference between a climate refugee and … 250 million people will be displaced by climate change impacts, such as rising sea levels and floods and famine and droughts. That's a huge number. We currently have 79.5 million people …
Across America, five communities in search of environmental justice
… of at least a foot by 2050, which will make the Rockaways more prone to climate change-fueled flooding and storm surges than they already are. "What we're trying to accomplish as an …
Malawi's Catholic agencies step up aid as coronavirus infections spike
… depend on precarious daily sources of income and are affected by seasonal shocks like floods, droughts and crop disease. Only 0.1 percent of the rural population of Malawi is prepared … the far southern and northern parts of the country are still trying to overcome the impact of floods in early 2020, which displaced many from their homes and destroyed incomes. "Children are …
Laudato Si' validates centuries of indigenous knowledge to defend nature
… in hundreds of communities living by the shores of the affected rivers. We should add the big floods we just experienced like never before, which have wiped out entire communities. The impact …