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Dry farmland in Calipatria, California, 2015 (CNS photo/Mike Blake, Reuters)

Confronting Climate Change

Commonweal & the environment
The Editors
September 20, 2021
Climate Change
Environment

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Feature

Tears & Ashes

How can we cultivate a way of seeing environmental crises that extends beyond the news cycles on our screens?
By Vincent Miller
March 2, 2022
Climate Change
Spirituality
Death and Dying

A Hostile Climate

On this episode, investigative journalist Katie Worth explains why climate science often isn’t taught in schools across America.
Climate Change
Environment
Article

Eliminating Emissions

The latest report on climate change confirms that things will get worse. But we still have some control over just how much.
By Isabella Simon
August 23, 2021
Climate Change
Feature

Can the Chinampas Survive?

In Mexico City there is an ancient agricultural system that consists of manmade islands, called chinampas. They risk ruin in the face of climate change.
By Joseph Sorrentino
August 29, 2019
Climate Change
Foreign Affairs
Social Justice
Feature

A Cathedral Not Made by Hands

In an old-growth forest, everything is connected. No individual plant or animal, and indeed no species, is an island. As Pope Francis warns, we should pay attention.
By Vincent Miller
December 30, 2019
Environment
Theology
Spirituality
Article

Troubled Waters

Reefs are sacred spaces where scientific certainty gives way to mystery and awe. But climate change has made their extinction a very real possibility.
By Bryan P. Galligan, SJ
August 29, 2021
Environment
Climate Change
Nonfiction
Article

‘Why Call It Progress?’

Despite the assertions of Francis’s critics, the current pope has in fact pushed out from a path firmly forged by his predecessors.
By Austen Ivereigh
September 30, 2019
Environment
Pope Francis
Theology
Pope Benedict XVI
Pope John Paul II
Article

Beyond Growth

The planet cannot provide the endless growth capitalism demands. A new book explores an economic reordering that could move us toward a sustainable future.
By Max Foley-Keene
November 4, 2020
Climate Change
Nonfiction
Economy
Feature

Diverted Waters

The U.S.-built border wall separates Mexicali and the Imperial Valley agricultural region.
By Alexander Heilner
August 24, 2021
Closing Shot
Arts
Climate Change
Article

Servant of Memory

Remembering the remarkable storyteller, Barry Lopez
By Griffin Oleynick
February 5, 2021
Interview
Environment
Nonfiction
Travel
Article
To disrupt the natural world at this rate is simply not to “till and keep” it. Right now, we have way too much tilling and not enough keeping.

The Web of Life

By David Cloutier
May 30, 2019
Environment
Pope Francis
Theology
Feature

On Home Ground

Stairs and burial vault displaced by Hurricane Isaac floodwaters, Braithwaite, Louisiana, 2012.
By Carolyn Monastra
December 24, 2020
Closing Shot
Climate Change
Article

Mountains, not Screens

Nature provides what technology can’t give. We must remember our responsibility to heal the planet, but we shouldn’t forget its ability to heal us.
By Isabella Simon
July 20, 2019
Spirituality
Environment
Article

Mushroom as Metaphor

Ecological systems—fungi in particular—provide a way to consider interdependence and relationships outside of competition and neoliberalism.
By Vincent Miller
July 28, 2021
Environment
Philosophy
Social Justice
Article

Teetering on the Edge

The ongoing social and environmental destruction of Amazonia is not just a local or South American problem. It’s a global one.
By Bryan P. Galligan, SJ
October 6, 2020
Foreign Affairs
Climate Change
Coronavirus
Article

Yours, Mine, or Ours

An exploration of fracking in rural Pennsylvania reveals the effects of individualism on ecosystems and communities.
By Gracy Olmstead
July 3, 2021
Nonfiction
Domestic Affairs
Environment
Article

The Next Step

'Laudato si’' develops a notion of solidarity within and between generations, not only with fellow human beings but with the whole earth and all its creatures.
By Anthony Annett
July 7, 2015
Environment
Pope Francis
Social Justice
Theology
U.S. Catholicism
Article
Catholics in the Philippines, more than anywhere else, have brought this encyclical to life and made it their own.

Living into ‘Laudato si’’

By Rita Ferrone
January 15, 2019
Environment
Pope Francis
U.S. Catholicism
Bishops
Article

Regeneration

The concepts of ecological sustainability are not foreign to Congolese, who have a deep conviction that the land belongs first and foremost to their ancestors
By Mary Frohlich
November 7, 2011
Environment
The Last Word
Article

At Our Mercy

We have failed utterly to protect our planet and those who share it with us; for Christians, this constitutes a profound break with God
By Elizabeth A. Johnson
January 23, 2014
Environment
Evolution
Religious Life
Theology
Climate Change

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