Tag: environmental destruction
The road to extinction
What a happy world it would be if all living species lived in harmony—plants, animals…
Environmentalists go after Indonesia’s forest burners
JAKARTA (UCAN): In a joint report, Greenpeace Indonesia and Forensic Architecture called for action to…
Winning a battle but not the war against open-pit mining
Joseph Peter Calleja Catholic bishops in the Philippines have long fought against open-pit mining—a surface…
River erosion threatens church and villagers
DHAKA (UCAN): The historic St. Joseph’s Church and five adjacent villages at Ranikhong in Netrokona…
Damning the Kaliwa Dam project
What is the Kaliwa Dam project in the Philippines? Manila’s Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System…
We have moral imperative to rethink our ways pope says in TEDx talk
VATICAN (CNS): “We are faced with the moral imperative—and the practical urgency—to rethink many things”…
Greenland is melting, islands have disappeared
I loathe the cold and love the warm. Who doesn’t? I grew up in Ireland where…
