EarthBeat

Vatican official Cardinal Michael Czerny told a Gonzaga University audience that colleges need to become again "hotbeds of critical thinking and incubators of radical action" — inspired by Pope Francis' encyclicals.

The first pope to select as his namesake the patron saint of ecology, Pope Francis has emphasized concern for creation as a priority of the Catholic Church, and made ecology a central theme of his papacy.

Oceans are a gift from God and they must be used fairly and sustainably, Pope Francis said in a written message for the Our Ocean Conference.

Pretending our problems don't exist might help us relax in the moment, but it comes with a real cost in the long run.

Ada Limón's poem reminds us that after the shock of the winter season the earth's plants offer a "return to the strange idea of continuous living despite the mess of us, the hurt, the empty."

As effects of climate change impact the horn of Africa, organizations are collaborating to take action. Among them are the Catholic Church and Equity Bank, who have partnered to restore degraded forests in Kenya.

Churches, with their large parking lots that often sit empty during the week, could help provide a solution to the growing demand for electric vehicle charging stations.

Carmelite nuns who prayed a novena during a nine-day protest march by Indigenous groups from the Philippines' Sierra Madre mountains are among the Catholics who have raised opposition to construction of the Kaliwa Dam.