“You can’t run from climate change”: The climate crisis is increasingly a refugee crisis, US faith resettlement groups say
As the world marked Earth Day on Friday, EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER. of Religion News Service, reports on the connection between refugees and climate change…
Weather disasters killed two million in last 50 years, UN agency says
Geneva, Switzerland Reuters The number of disasters, such as floods and heatwaves, driven by climate change have increased fivefold over the past 50 years, killing more than two million people and costing $US3.64 trillion in total losses, a UN agency said on Wednesday. The World Meteorological Organization says its “Atlas” is the most comprehensive review […]
Essay: From Katrina to COVID, American crises expose racial injustice again and again
JAMIE ATEN, founder and executive director of the Humanitarian Disaster Institute at Wheaton College in the US, looks – in an article first published on Religion News Service – at how crises like Hurricane Katrina or the current COVID pandemic have revealed racial inequalities in the US…
Wow!: Gardening in Katrina’s wake: growing food helps rebuild New Orleans
ELLEN WULFHORST, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how, 15 years after Hurricane Katrina, one woman is hoping to inspire other New Orleans residents to grow vegetables and flowers…
United States: As New Orleans still recovers, prayer teams cover one block at a time
BRUCE NOLAN reports for ENInews/RNS…