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Climate anxiety? This 30-day action plan may give you hope
… and ask about their plans to keep green spaces open in the face of warming temperatures, wildfires and increased extreme storms. Attend your local planning board meeting and speak out …
Dec 2, 2021
Amid economic crisis, Brazilians switch from gas to wood for cooking fuel
… certain cancers. It also affects outdoor air quality, adding to the impact of the hundreds of wildfires that have burned in recent months. "Particularly at a local level, the air quality …
Dec 1, 2021
EarthBeat Weekly: 'The Earth is speaking; she tells us we have no more time'
… new in other climate news: … Severe flooding and landslides, possibly exacerbated by summer wildfires, left some 18,000 people stranded in British Columbia, after heavy rains pounded the …
Nov 19, 2021
Climate Crisis as Public Health Crisis: A Regional Perspective
… The effects of climate change on health are many — directly, such as poor air quality from wildfire smoke, to indirectly, such as increasing rates of zoonotic infections, and food …
Nov 8, 2021
As Biden prepares to meet Pope Francis, a call to honor greatest commandment
… that share our common home in greater peril, threatened by a cataclysmic climate crisis. Wildfires rage in the American West, deadly heat waves have killed hundreds, and droughts …
Oct 28, 2021
Twin brothers beautify yards while fighting climate change
… business approach that's more relevant than ever. After months of seeing scorching wildfires out west and drastic temperatures sweep across parts of the nation, the impacts of …
Oct 27, 2021
Like prior stand against nuclear weapons, climate emergency calls for bold leadership from US bishops
… New York have drowned in their homes, and as California residents breathe poisonous smoke from wildfires hundreds of miles away, U.S. legislators are debating laws meant to put a brake on …
Oct 23, 2021
5 reasons why Catholics should care about the COP26 climate summit
… and many parts of the world have been hit by extreme weather — heat waves accompanied by wildfires and severe storms and flooding — that scientists link to global warming. "These things …
Oct 15, 2021
Links: Palm oil corruption; the blue-collar struggle for social justice
… ledes I have seen in a long, long time: Hurricane Ida in Louisiana in August and the historic wildfires in the West and Midwest are the latest reminders that too much water, or too little, …
Oct 14, 2021
EarthBeat Weekly: As the planet warms, more frequent heat waves will hit children hardest
… at Politico New Jersey. Tens of millions of gallons of flame retardant have been dropped over wildfires in the western United States in the past decade. Autumn Spanne at The Daily Climate …
Oct 1, 2021
At Home in Creation: Blessing in the burning
… like California and Australia learning from Indigenous practices to better prevent and manage wildfires. And Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, the first Native American in that post, is embracing Indigenous knowledge in confronting climate change challenges like wildfires. The last decade has been the hottest on record, and the metaphor of "Earth on fire" is …
Oct 1, 2021