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We send the EarthBeat Weekly newsletter on Fridays. It includes links to what's new on EarthBeat, NCR's special section on care for creation, as well as links to articles published elsewhere that we think you'll be interested in.

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EarthBeat Weekly: Laudato Si' is about connection, community as much as carbon footprints

by Stephanie Clary

Jan 21, 2022

EarthBeat Weekly: Pope Francis' encyclical reminds us our call to care for creation has just as much to do with our relationships with each other, other creatures and God as it does with sustainability.

EarthBeat Weekly: Amid 'Don't Look Up,' have we grown numb to record-breaking rising temperatures?

Jan 14, 2022

EarthBeat Weekly: NASA and NOAA released their annual reports on global warming, finding 2021 the sixth warmest year on record. But is anyone paying attention?

EarthBeat Weekly: Florida solar standoff shows environmental justice applies to renewable energy, too

Jan 7, 2022

EarthBeat Weekly: A story this week about a small town's fight for a say in a proposed solar farm shows that issues of environmental justice and racism aren't confined to fossil fuels and chemical plants.

EarthBeat Weekly: The stories that captured our readers' attention most in 2021

Dec 31, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: We look through the top news of 2021, including the reports and opinions that readers read the most.

EarthBeat Weekly: Christmas wishes fade for Build Back Better Act passage

Dec 17, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: 'Pursuit of climate justice is inextricable from the pursuit of racial justice'

by Barbara Fraser

Dec 10, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: This Advent, can we start to break our addiction to plastic?

by Barbara Fraser

Dec 3, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: On Native American Heritage Day, honoring America's Indigenous peoples

Nov 26, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: 'The Earth is speaking; she tells us we have no more time'

by Barbara Fraser

Nov 19, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: COP26 results are still too little, though perhaps not too late

by Barbara Fraser

Nov 12, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: Without enforcement, presidents' promises at COP26 won't save the world's forests

by Barbara Fraser

Nov 5, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: 2 years after the Amazon Synod, are we any closer to ecological conversion?

by Barbara Fraser

Oct 29, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: Ahead of COP26, checking the temperature on public opinions about climate change

Oct 22, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: Can we overcome our society's addiction to consumption?

by Barbara Fraser

Oct 15, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: Winds and dust remind of life's interconnectedness on Earth

by Barbara Fraser

Oct 8, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: As the planet warms, more frequent heat waves will hit children hardest

by Barbara Fraser

Oct 1, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: The US budget bill will have consequences for the global climate, too

by Barbara Fraser

Sep 24, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: Defending healthy ecosystems is a matter of life and death

by Barbara Fraser

Sep 17, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: What 'meaningful sacrifices' will we make so future generations enjoy a better world?

by Barbara Fraser

Sep 10, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: Convergence of COVID-19 and climate change is unmistakable call to action

by Barbara Fraser

Sep 3, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: We've turned the heat up in cities, so how can we cool them down?

by Barbara Fraser

Aug 27, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: Climate change is the most critical environmental justice issue facing the world today

by Barbara Fraser

Aug 20, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: Sobering climate report points to need for wealthy countries to scale back lifestyles

by Barbara Fraser

Aug 13, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: Fires, floods, foot-dragging make climate action more urgent

by Barbara Fraser

Aug 6, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: Laudato Si' reminds us that ecological conversion must be communal

by Barbara Fraser

Jul 30, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: New Peruvian bishop shaped by 'the Amazonian face of the church'

by Barbara Fraser

Jul 23, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: We need a new relationship with the rest of creation — and with our stuff

by Barbara Fraser

Jul 16, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: What prices at the pump mean for climate policy

Jul 9, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: Record-breaking heat helps make climate change feel 'real'

by Barbara Fraser

Jul 2, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: How can ordinary Catholics live out Laudato Si'?

by Barbara Fraser

Jun 25, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: Bora woman in Peru honored for fighting against illegal logging and for park

by Barbara Fraser

Jun 18, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: Faith leaders pressure Biden on pipelines and climate policy

by Barbara Fraser

Jun 11, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: Despite actions against Big Oil, demand for fossil fuels remains high

by Barbara Fraser

Jun 4, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: How to shrink our pandemic-fueled digital environmental footprints

by Barbara Fraser

May 28, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: Laudato Si' Week envisions fossil fuel-free future

by Barbara Fraser

May 21, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: Amid climate change, a week to commit to caring for our common home

by Barbara Fraser

May 14, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: Most of the world's people are caught in an 'ecological poverty trap'

by Barbara Fraser

May 7, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: Continuing challenge for people of faith: turning climate concern into action

by Barbara Fraser

Apr 30, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: Earth Day treaty seeks to protect environmental defenders in Latin America

by Barbara Fraser

Apr 23, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: Climate science is clear — it's time for 'hard choices' based on faith values

by Barbara Fraser

Apr 16, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: World needs to move more decisively to avoid 'a ghastly future'

by Barbara Fraser

Apr 9, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: A Peruvian Holy Thursday when lightbulbs trumped candles

by Barbara Fraser

Apr 2, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: World and Vatican devote a week to Sister Water

by Barbara Fraser

Mar 26, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: Organized crime threatens Amazonian Indigenous communities

by Barbara Fraser

Mar 19, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: Pandemic, like climate change, highlights racial injustices

by Barbara Fraser

Mar 12, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: Three women leading in defense of the environment

by Barbara Fraser

Mar 5, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: Lessons for Catholics from life of Hazel Johnson, 'mother of environmental justice'

by Barbara Fraser

Feb 26, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: Pandemic, storms call us to make peace with the planet

by Barbara Fraser

Feb 19, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: A year after 'Querida Amazonia,' some lessons for the U.S. church

by Barbara Fraser

Feb 12, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: Environment defenders face dual threat of climate change, murder

by Barbara Fraser

Feb 5, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: Forest conservation, clean energy, green jobs get thumbs up in global poll

by Barbara Fraser

Jan 29, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: The hurdles facing Biden's climate plans

by Barbara Fraser

Jan 22, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: Fossil fuels fade, but pipeline protests persist

by Barbara Fraser

Jan 15, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: Racial inequality colors response to environmental protests

by Barbara Fraser

Jan 8, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: Environmental justice, action, spirituality among top themes for 2021

by Barbara Fraser

Jan 1, 2021

EarthBeat Weekly: In Amazonian Nativity scenes, Jesus is born in midst of everyday life

by Barbara Fraser

Dec 25, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Biden picks signal seat at table for environmental justice

by Barbara Fraser

Dec 18, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Indigenous leaders call for voice, vote in climate talks

by Barbara Fraser

Dec 11, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: 'Love your local ecosystem'

by Barbara Fraser

Dec 4, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: In Advent, simple living brings abundant life

by Barbara Fraser

Nov 27, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: World's hunger for gold deadly for miners, environment

by Barbara Fraser

Nov 20, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Where will we go when home gets too hot?

by Barbara Fraser

Nov 13, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Election reminds us that climate issues are local, too

by Barbara Fraser

Nov 6, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Looking back at a year of EarthBeat

Oct 30, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Amid East Africa climate crisis, church groups help farmers survive, adapt

by Barbara Fraser

Oct 23, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: There's still time to act on climate change

by Barbara Fraser

Oct 16, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Church awareness of Amazon destruction increasing, but still not enough, indigenous leaders say

by Barbara Fraser

Oct 9, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Following in St. Francis' footsteps as Season of Creation ends

by Barbara Fraser

Oct 2, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Facing the future with the world on fire

by Madeleine Davison, Lucy Grindon

Sep 25, 2020

Earthbeat Weekly: What's one thing we can all do about climate change? Talk about it

by Barbara Fraser

Sep 18, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Pope Francis' ecological conversion on the way to Laudato Si'

by Barbara Fraser

Sep 11, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Justice means safe water for all

by Barbara Fraser

Sep 4, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: A legacy of rollbacks

by Barbara Fraser

Aug 28, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Wildfires blaze a climate warning

by Barbara Fraser

Aug 21, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Indigenous peoples face multiple risks

by Barbara Fraser

Aug 14, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: How Isaias, COVID-19 and Beirut connect to climate change

by Barbara Fraser

Aug 7, 2020

EB Weekly: EarthBeat gets a big boost in funding and a new editor

by Bill Mitchell

Jul 31, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Re-imagining how we get where we're going

by Bill Mitchell

Jul 24, 2020

EB Weekly: Revisiting integral ecology amid the heat wave and surging coronavirus

by Bill Mitchell

Jul 17, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Where 100 or more of us are gathered…

by Bill Mitchell

Jul 10, 2020

How to close the gap between public opinion and public policy on the climate crisis?

by Bill Mitchell

Jul 3, 2020

Need an encouraging boost? Check out our Interfaith Climate Tracker

by Bill Mitchell

Jun 26, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Discerning what the Vatican really means when it comes to divestment

by Bill Mitchell

Jun 19, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Faith climate leaders speak out on racial injustice

Jun 12, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Why racial and environmental justice are so linked

by Bill Mitchell

Jun 4, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Introducing the author of 'Digging into 'Laudato Si''

by Bill Mitchell

May 29, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Shifting the terms of the debate

by Jesse Remedios

May 15, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Pulitzers spotlight climate coverage

by Bill Mitchell

May 8, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Throwaway plastics strike back amid the pandemic

May 1, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: The story behind the story of an Earth Day unlike any other

by Bill Mitchell

Apr 24, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: 50 years of Earth Day

by Bill Mitchell

Apr 17, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Nothing but blue skies - for now

by Bill Mitchell

Apr 10, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: The challenge of online activism

by Jesse Remedios

Apr 3, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: An eco-streaming guide while we're cooped up by coronavirus

Mar 28, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Solidarity key to addressing both the climate crisis and the pandemic

by Bill Mitchell

Mar 20, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Going to school on coronavirus

by Bill Mitchell

Mar 14, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Meet the author of our Lenten Daily Food Reflections

by Bill Mitchell

Mar 7, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Catholic climate group training local leaders

by Bill Mitchell

Feb 29, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: A new idea for Lent

by Bill Mitchell

Feb 22, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Taking the pope at his word

by Bill Mitchell

Feb 15, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Catholics, climate and the choice for president

by Bill Mitchell

Feb 7, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: The story behind the story of having kids amid climate crisis

by Bill Mitchell

Feb 1, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Speaking truth to power in a pink hoodie at Davos

by Bill Mitchell

Jan 24, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: The planet as patient

by Bill Mitchell

Jan 18, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Parish survey -- What are you doing to address climate change?

by Bill Mitchell

Jan 13, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Stepping into the new year with hope -- and a question

by Bill Mitchell

Jan 4, 2020

EarthBeat Weekly: Experiencing Advent where wildlife runs free

by Bill Mitchell

Dec 21, 2019

EarthBeat Weekly: We hear you, Greta. So here's the climate science

Dec 16, 2019

EarthBeat Weekly: Bypassing Black Friday to #OptOutside

Dec 9, 2019

EarthBeat Weekly: Listening to students (thousands of them)

by Bill Mitchell

Nov 25, 2019

EarthBeat Weekly: Time for a veggie Thanksgiving

by Bill Mitchell

Nov 15, 2019

EarthBeat Weekly: 11,224 scientists 'telling it like it is'

by Bill Mitchell

Nov 9, 2019