Tag: Environment
Catholic school in Thailand launches environmental awareness program
The Malasawan Pitthaya School in central Thailand has organized a training session for teachers and staff on the pope's encyclical
Church, green groups score victory against mining in southern Philippines
“The brave stance of the local government ... is a win not only of rights of nature, but also of accountability in governance”
Philippines’ troubled waters: Residents say dredging project used to mine black...
Cagayan Governor Manuel Mamba Sr. adamantly denied that the contractors are mining black sand in the town of Aparri
Troubled Waters: Philippine fisherfolk suffer poor catch as gov’t dredging project...
A project meant to help restore a major river in Aparri has wreaked havoc on the livelihood of local fisherfolk
Collecting trash earns young Frenchman in Indonesia ‘Asia’s Nobel Prize’
“The problem of plastic pollution is a huge one but if we have that dream, that conviction, and that passion, then things can happen”
Philippines opens ‘Season of Creation’ with call to change ‘abusive ways’
“Listen to the voice begging us to change our abusive ways,” urged Bishop Pablo Virgilio David, president of Philippine bishops’ conference
Iraq’s Garden of Eden now ‘like a desert’
The reputed home of the biblical Garden of Eden, Iraq's swamplands have been battered by three years of drought and low rainfall
Church offers ‘cooling centers’ to help poor beat heat as temperatures...
Heatwave mortality in India has increased by more than 60 percent since 1980, according to the country's Ministry of Earth Sciences
Thai authorities to charge park official in environmental activist’s murder
Ethnic Karen leader Por Cha Lee Rakcharoen, better known as Billy, went missing in April 2014
China’s rare earth mining in Myanmar fuels rights abuses, pollution, says...
Global Witness found that China had outsourced much of its industry across the border to a remote corner of Kachin state
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