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Kenyan Christians gather to worship under the trees. Image by AGWM Africa.

Christianity can be an ally for Kenyan conservation (commentary)

Peter Rowe 10 Apr 2026
Hooded vultures are small, scruffy-faced vultures native to sub-Saharan Africa.

‘Staggering’ trade for belief-based use drives hooded vultures to near-extinction in Benin

Spoorthy Raman 25 Mar 2026

Vatican launches campaign to encourage divestment from mining industries

Associated Press 20 Mar 2026

José Zanardini, the priest who tried to reconcile faith and Indigenous autonomy

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Jan 2026

Taboo against harming strangler fig spirits protects forests in Indonesian Borneo

Liz Kimbrough 22 Dec 2025

How religious beliefs may help protect Mentawai’s forests

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Nov 2025

Scientists & nuns unite to save Mexico’s rare achoque salamanders

Mongabay.com 18 Nov 2025
Brianna Fruean is an advocate for climate justice and part of the Council of Elders for the Pacific Climate Warriors, or 350 Pacific. Image by Brianna Fruean.

Healing life on Earth begins with healing our bonds: Voices from the land (commentary)

Brianna Fruean 10 Nov 2025
Banner image of smokestacks by Pixabay via Pexels (Public domain).

Catholic bishops from Global South call for ambitious climate action ahead of COP30

Kristine Sabillo 2 Jul 2025

Ancient eco-friendly pilgrimage brings modern threats to Sri Lanka wildnerness

Malaka Rodrigo 1 Jul 2025
Jandhen Gurung, 82, with her juniper leaf collection. Image by Durga Rana Magar.

In Nepal, centuries-old Buddhist incense tradition faces overharvesting, climate threats

Durga Rana Magar 16 May 2025
A Shipibo leader from Madre de Dios, Cusurichi Palacios serves on the national board of AIDESEP, a large organization representing more than 2,400 Indigenous communities in Peru.

The latest issues in Peru’s Amazon: Interview with Indigenous leader Julio Cusurichi

Latoya Abulu 1 May 2025
Pope Francis, 1936-2025.

Pope Francis’ uncompromising defense of nature may be his greatest legacy

Justin Catanoso 24 Apr 2025
Banner image of Pope Francis at Tacloban airport, courtesy of Benhur Arcayan/Malacanang Photo Bureau (Public domain).

Remembering Pope Francis and his visit to typhoon-hit Philippines

Kristine Sabillo 24 Apr 2025
Farmers in the fields around a geothermal power plant in Central Java.

Church pressure spurs scrutiny of Indonesian geothermal projects

Ebed de Rosary 23 Apr 2025
Snow leopard at ease in its high-mountain habitat. Image courtesy of Madhu Chetri.

How cultural and religious beliefs combine for snow leopard conservation (commentary)

7 Apr 2025
The chosen Saakhelu tree, honored with offerings of chicha, stands as an axis, connecting the community to its environment and the divine. Image by Anna Abraham and Tony Kirby.

Photos: Colombia’s Indigenous Nasa push back against cultural loss to reconnect with nature

Anna Abraham, Tony Kirby 2 Apr 2025

Impacts and legacies of migration across the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 24 Oct 2024

Why the Maxakali people are calling on their spirits to recover the Atlantic Forest

Xavier Bartaburu 25 Sep 2024
Farmers on rice terraces in Bali.

In Bali, water temple priests guide a sustainable rice production system

Elizabeth Sinclair 26 Aug 2024
Traditional healers use the smoke from the coals of a yellow wood tree (Podocarpus latifolius) to cleanse a cattle herd of problematic spirits and stop the animals from fighting.

‘Everything is a being’ for South Africa’s amaMpondo fighting to protect nature

Leonie Joubert 19 Aug 2024
A Maasai man armed with a spear stands on a hilltop close to the highest point of the Loita hills.

Photos: For Kenya’s Maasai, will a new faith undo age-old conservation traditions?

Stuart Butler 23 Jul 2024
Extreme heat in Mecca has led to deaths of over 1,300 pilgrims.

More than 1,300 Muslim pilgrims die in Mecca under 50C heat

Mongabay.com 19 Jul 2024
Service in Östersund.

How Europe’s only Indigenous group is inspiring a greener Christianity

John Last 17 Jul 2024
Karma, a monk in the ancient monastery of Mu Gompa

In a Himalayan Eden, a road project promises opportunity, but also loss

Stuart Butler 8 May 2024
A front view of the Kedarnath Temple in the aftermath of the 2013 floods.

Risky development in Uttarakhand: Interview with environmentalist Ravi Chopra

Swati Thapa 13 Feb 2024
A sarus crane flies over an agricultural field.

Nepal’s birds pay cost for country’s infrastructure development

Abhaya Raj Joshi 29 Dec 2023
Muslim communities represent a large percentage of the global population and are greatly impacted by climate change, and therefore deserve seats at important climate change negotiations like COP28. Image courtesy of Memona Hossain.

Muslim community must have a seat for global climate change discourse (commentary)

Memona Hossain 3 Nov 2023
Pope Francis has inspired people the world over.

Ahead of COP28, pope spurs policymakers, faith leaders to push climate action

Justin Catanoso 30 Oct 2023

Pope Francis condemns world leaders for deeply flawed UN climate process

Justin Catanoso 5 Oct 2023
An ocelot (Leopardus pardalis). Image by Martinus Scriblerus via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

Apache tribe decry loss of sacred site to massive copper mine at both court and the U.N.

Kate Schimel 27 Apr 2023
Greenfaith representatives attending as a multifaith delegation at Stop Line 3 pipeline protests in Minnesota. Image courtesy of Nana Firman.

A Ramadan reflection on Islam and climate action (commentary)

Memona Hossain 11 Apr 2023

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