In response to the effects of climate change, Sr. Juunza Mwangani, who is the project manager of the Sisters of the Holy Spirit, recognized opportunity among the people of southern Zambia, who are farmers by nature.
Negotiations in South Korea were expected to deliver a treaty on plastics two years in the making, but the U.N. meeting adjourned early Dec. 2 with delegates for some 170 nations still deadlocked on key issues.
On the Muscogee reservation in Oklahoma and other parts of the U.S., Native Americans are working to preserve an heirloom peach variety that's a part of their heritage and now threatened by climate change.
Among delegates attending the latest United Nations biodiversity summit, called COP16, is a coalition of faith groups who say they aim to parcel out a larger space, and voice, for religion in conservation efforts.
A centuries-old technique for growing floating beds of vegetables — adapted to put the invasive water hyacinth to use — is gaining popularity in Bangladesh amid flooding and sea rise worsened by climate change.
As Hurricane Milton takes aim at Florida just days after Hurricane Helene, Catholic Charities USA has launched a dedicated disaster relief donation campaign.
Rather than rely on the unstable electric grid in Puerto Rico, Nuestra Señora del Carmen Parish opted for solar, with hopes of serving as a climate resilience hub to prepare for future storms.
North Dakota's University of Mary's Summer Undergraduate Research Vocation Experience, or SURVE, is a 10-week annual program from late May through early August providing paid, science-research internships.
