environment

International Mother Earth Day: April 22
We all have the responsibility to save our earth as it provides us with food and water to sustain life.

Ecological activists filed a petition in the Southern National Green Tribunal to end the production of multi-layer plastic (MLP) in south India.

Jennifer Zabala, a Filipina, inspires to care for the environment by advocating against single-use plastic.

A priest in the Archdiocese of Goa-Daman, western India, is on a cleanliness drive caring for the environment.

Environmental activists and Ecological Observation and Wetlands Conservation (Ecoton) have built a plastic museum with 3F (Fish Fersus Flastic) in Gersik, East Java Province of Indonesia.

Salesian Sisters in Cambodia have been distributing food materials and cooked meals to those affected by the Covid pandemic packed in banana leaves. The nuns inspired both volunteers and the food recipients to care for the environment and minimize the use of plastic.

Palawan prelate fears pandemic-driven poverty will drive people into illegal logging, mining activities

Indonesian capital Jakarta's air quality has improved in recent months. The Church is doing its part.

Catholic priests and Buddhist monks in Cambodia joined hands to plant and adorn trees to mark the "Day of Prayer for the Environment" on September 1.

“Let us reflect on how the way we eat, consume, travel, or the way we use water, energy, plastics, and many other material goods, is often harmful to the earth.”

Pope Francis releases his prayer intention for the month of September, and invites us to pray that everyone might make choices which promote a simple and sustainable lifestyle.

Every day, 55 elephants are killed in Africa while in Asia only about 40,000 of these animals are left alive

A UN climate report that was released this week found that global warming is dangerously close to spiraling out of control.

A Catholic priest in India is taking his motorbike for a cross-country ride to call attention to the environment staring Tuesday, August 10.

Pope Francis on Thursday expressed “spiritual closeness” to those affected by floods that devastated many parts of Europe this week.

Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, archbishop of Colombo, reiterated his earlier warning against the Sri Lankan government’s plan to develop the country’s Muthurajawela wetlands.

Pope Francis called for “a new ecological approach” to the environment even as he decried the “predatory attitude” that people have toward the planet.

Cardinal Tagle said “every baptized person has received a gift from the Holy Spirit that must be developed by participating in the mission itself”

Earth Day is an annual event on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection. First held on April 22, 1970, it now includes a wide range of events including the planting of trees.

The call of Pope Francis to care for Mother Earth has resonated with Catholic communities across India, and the Salesians of Don Bosco is one such community.