Brian Roewe

New solar array at Catholic University of America supports the Vatican's Laudato Si' Action Platform. It also supports the goal of Washington, D.C., to increase use of renewables and to achieve carbon neutrality.

As climate threats have risen, Bangladesh has also become a global leader in climate resilience, including working with organizations like Catholic Relief Services to help communities better withstand stronger storms.

A new United Nations report reaffirmed Catholic development concerns about climate change. It also reinforced the need for fast and transformational measures to reverse course and limit suffering.

"U.S. Catholic leaders' failure to share and enact the church's own climate teachings is disillusioning young people," a college student tells Pope Francis.

A new campaign attempts to leverage the moral and financial power of people of faith to convince financial service providers that climate-solutions investing is not only an expectation of their clientele, but a demand.

Mindfulness can help people connect to a sense of joy and gratitude for creation, and reclaim a sense of the sacred essential to see how humans are damaging the planet, and then to become motivated to address it.

Eighty-six faith leaders have called on President Joe Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to not abandon Democrats' Build Back Better agenda and its hundreds of billions of dollars to combat climate change

Three large initiatives landed on the doorsteps of U.S. Catholic dioceses, parishes, congregations and organizations last fall. A recent Catholic Climate Covenant webinar explored the opportunities for collaboration.

In a sweeping pastoral, the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines also called for church institutions to press their banks to phase out fossil fuel holdings and to deny donations with ties to the fossil fuel and extractive industries.

Commentary: Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens, perhaps two of the best baseball players of all time, were recently rejected induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Here's why that was the right decision.

The Southeast Faith Leaders Network kicked off a "climate revival" Jan. 20, targeting four states that organizers say are on the front lines of the impacts of climate change as well as efforts to suppress voting access.

With a landmark ruling, one of Colombia's top courts granted legal rights to the Atrato River. Now, a network of communities along the vital waterway is working to ensure its protection.

The Milwaukee Archdiocese has issued a new policy aimed at persons who do not identify with their biological sex, stipulating that parishes, schools and other Catholic organizations must require people to use bathrooms associated with their birth gender.

In a virtual conversation, four young Black Catholics, all pursuing doctoral theology degrees, talked about the contributions Black people bring to the environmental conversation, both within the church and beyond.

EarthBeat Weekly: NASA and NOAA released their annual reports on global warming, finding 2021 the sixth warmest year on record. But is anyone paying attention?

EarthBeat Weekly: A story this week about a small town's fight for a say in a proposed solar farm shows that issues of environmental justice and racism aren't confined to fossil fuels and chemical plants.

EarthBeat Weekly: We look through the top news of 2021, including the reports and opinions that readers read the most.

Each year more than 1.5 million bulbs of Christmas lights transform the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows, in southern Illinois, into the Way of Lights, transporting visitors back to biblical days in a Christmas display like few others in the country.

Members of West Virginia Interfaith Power & Light delivered a Christmas card to the senator urging he reconsider his opposition to the bill that contains billions in climate investments.

EarthBeat Weekly: Senate Democrats' dreams of passing before Christmas the Build Back Better Act, and its half trillion-dollar investments this decade in climate initiatives, appear poised to extend into next year.