Confronting Climate Change

Feature

Tears & Ashes

How can we cultivate a way of seeing environmental crises that extends beyond the news cycles on our screens?

March 2, 2022

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.

August 29, 2019

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.

December 30, 2019

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.

September 30, 2019

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.

November 4, 2020

Feature

Diverted Waters

The U.S.-built border wall separates Mexicali and the Imperial Valley agricultural region.

August 24, 2021

Article

Servant of Memory

Remembering the remarkable storyteller, Barry Lopez

February 5, 2021

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

May 30, 2019

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.

July 28, 2021

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.

July 3, 2021

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.

July 7, 2015

Article

Catholics in the Philippines, more than anywhere else, have brought this encyclical to life and made it their own.

Living into ‘Laudato si’’

January 15, 2019

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