Top Story www.newyorker.com How a young activist is helping Pope Francis battle climate change Molly Burhans wants the Catholic Church to put its assets—which include farms, forests, oil wells, and millions of acres of land—to better use. But, first, she has to map them.
Politics insideclimatenews.org Five years after speaking out on climate change, Pope Francis sounds an urgent alarm The encyclical ‘Laudato Si’ motivated many people to take action on global warming, but governments, the pope said, have lagged far behind.
Solutions www.washingtonpost.com A field in D.C. will soon be home to 5,000 solar panels. It’s all because of local Catholic groups — and a message from the pope. Churches say they are fulfilling God's command — and the wishes of Pope Francis in “Laudato Si" — by switching to renewable energy.
A controversial facility that would process plastic waste to be burned in steel mills has been cancelled
