ecology

Pope Francis took advantage of his visit to Bahrain Thursday to tout an upcoming United Nations climate conference in Egypt.

The international community must make the “ecological commitment” a top priority, Pope Francis said in an interview published Sunday.

Patrick Moore, one of the founders of Greenpeace, laments that the environmental movement has been hijacked by climate alarmists, whose goal is to instill fear and guilt in the public.

Climate change alarmists are now blaming global warming for making the earth “spin faster” in their latest effort to convince people to lessen their output of carbon dioxide.

Pope Francis urged European youth this week to eat less meat as a means of curbing global warming and preserving the planet.

Pope Francis renewed his appeal for an “integral ecology” Monday, calling on Christians to live “in harmony with the environment” and “in harmony with the universe.”

The Catholic bishops of the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro have urged “special attention so that climatic events do not continue to cause disasters and suffering” in a preparatory document for next October’s national elections.

The introduction of “novel entities,” especially plastics, into the environment has now exceeded earth’s “planetary boundary,” EcoWatch reported Tuesday.

Earth’s sixth mass extinction has most certainly begun, asserts an article Tuesday in Science Alert, despite the objections of “deniers.”

Pope Francis once again appealed for a concerted international effort to battle climate change Monday, insisting that no one is exempt from this task.

The massive Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica could “fall apart overnight” and raise sea levels by 10 feet, declares an article Thursday in Rolling Stone magazine.

In an apparently serious article, the New York Times declared Monday that climate change is compelling some albatrosses, which usually mate for life, to “divorce” their partners.

Pope Francis urged young people to be willing to swim against the tide Sunday, praising by name those who fight in the name of the environment.

A group of faith leaders have sought to guilt rich nations into redistributing their wealth under the guise of climate change reparations.

Pope Francis sent a striking message to the U.N. Climate Conference in Glasgow Wednesday, in which he compared the effects of climate change to those of World War II.

Pope Francis offered prayers Sunday for the success of the COP26 U.N. Climate Change Conference beginning in Glasgow, Scotland.

The American bumble bee is destined to go the way of the brontosaurus and the wooly mammoth thanks to manmade climate change, media report.

Pope Francis hosted scientists and religious leaders in the Vatican Monday, where they signed a joint appeal calling for carbon neutrality and a radical change in lifestyles.

Pope Francis has continued his environmental crusade, urging Catholics Wednesday to adopt “a simple and environmentally sustainable lifestyle.”

Two Oregon State University professors have doubled down in declaring a worldwide “climate emergency” and warning of “untold suffering” if fossil fuels are not eliminated.

Hundreds of Chinese fishing vessels illegally occupying the Philippines’ Spratly Islands are allegedly dumping vast amounts of human waste into the surrounding South China Sea causing an ecological “catastrophe” that threatens the health of local marine ecosystems and fishing stocks, Reuters reported on Tuesday.

German climate scientist Markus Rex warned this week that humanity may have already passed the tipping point for irreversible global warming.

Pope Francis proposed Monday that building back better after the coronavirus pandemic involves repudiating the errors of the past.

Pope Francis issued a dire report on the state of the planet Tuesday, insisting that the earth is suffering the worst environmental crisis of its history.

The “scientific consensus” on climate change “calls for a radical change in the way our economic and political systems operate,” said the coordinator of the Vatican’s Ecology and Creation office Tuesday.

Pope Francis told financiers Thursday that they must help calculate the “ecological debt” the global north owes to the global south.

ROME — Pope Francis insists in a new book things will never be the same in a post-pandemic world, calling instead for the establishment of a “new world order.”

The Vatican suggested Thursday that a Biden presidency might inject new life into the stagnant Paris Climate Accord after President Trump pulled the U.S. out of the deal in 2017.

Pope Francis says in a new book that anyone who truly cares about the environment will necessarily be opposed to abortion.

Vatican News praised the decision of 47 faith-based institutions to divest from fossil fuels, saying the move followed “the Vatican’s guidelines on ethical investments.”

Climate alarmists have warned that a Trump reelection could mean America becoming a “failed state” as well as the possible “extinction” of the human race.

Climate change rhetoric continues to escalate, with alarmists now proclaiming that there is no need to wait because “the apocalypse is now.”

Pope Francis said Wednesday that the earth, sea, and all creatures possess a “mystical capacity” to bring humanity to God and into communion with nature.

Jane Fonda ramps up her climate change rhetoric in an interview Thursday with Time magazine, in which she urges “civil disobedience” and the adoption of the Green New Deal.

Pope Francis thanked a group of French ecologists in the Vatican Thursday for their efforts to “save the environment,” which is undergoing a “disturbing degradation.”

ROME — Pope Francis announced a “jubilee for the earth” Tuesday to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, calling on all to combat the “climate emergency.”