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Pope Francis, 1936-2025.

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

Justin Catanoso 24 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)

Anil Adhikari 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, a new faith may undo age-old conservation traditions

Stuart Butler 23 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
The Kargi people, a remote nomadic settlement in Kenya. Image by Ian Macharia via Unsplash.

Cultural heritage is an essential resource for climate change science too, reports say

Ian Morse 14 Mar 2023

Across Latin America, Mennonites seek out isolation at the expense of forests

Victoria Schneider 15 Dec 2021

First Nations unite to fight industrial exploitation of Australia’s Martuwarra

Nick Rodway 14 Dec 2021

Brazil court upholds ban on missionaries trying to contact isolated Indigenous

Fernanda Wenzel 6 Oct 2021

In Madagascar, cultural taboos can protect or harm the environment

Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 25 May 2021

Peru prosecutors probe Amazon deforestation linked to Mennonite communities

Yvette Sierra Praeli 6 Nov 2020

Brazil judge blocks appointment of missionary to indigenous agency

Sam Cowie 26 May 2020

Shamans in the city: Brazil clinic offers traditional Amazonian treatments

Débora Menezes 9 Apr 2020

As COVID-19 rages, evangelical pastor may contact remote Amazon tribes

Sam Cowie 30 Mar 2020

First possible COVID-19 indigenous cases detected near key Amazon reserve

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 25 Mar 2020

Bringing Christ and coronavirus: Evangelicals to contact Amazon indigenous

Sue Branford 17 Mar 2020

A bloody January for Brazil’s indigenous Kaiowá spotlights persecution

Caio de Freitas Paes 2 Mar 2020

Pope makes impassioned plea to save the Amazon — will the world listen?

Justin Catanoso 17 Feb 2020

Bolsonaro sends Congress bill to open indigenous lands to mining, fossil fuels

Jan Rocha 7 Feb 2020

Amazon’s Munduruku stage daring Christmas raid to recover sacred urns

Rosamaria Loures; and Sue Branford* 20 Jan 2020

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