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January 4, 2023 - How mainline Protestants help build Christian nationalism.
December 28, 2022 - Extremist violence spreading across West Africa, experts say.
December 23, 2022 - Antarctica: Two-thirds of native species under threat of extinction from global heating, research shows.
December 20, 2022 - Big oil behind conspiracy to deceive public, first climate racketeering lawsuit says.
December 20, 2022 - Taliban suspend university education for female students in Afghanistan.
December 19, 2022 - Nations promise to protect 30 percent of planet to stem extinction.
December 17, 2022 - This was a World Cup of human rights horrors.
December 15, 2022 - Canada: Survey on religion reveals a nation of no-gos.
December 9, 2022 - U.S. leaders gather to discuss rights of non-religious people across the globe.
November 29, 2022 - England and Wales no longer majority Christian nations, census reveals.
November 28, 2022 - Amid scandals and politics, Poland's youth lose faith in Catholic Church.
November 21, 2022 - World still on the brink of catastrophe after COP27 deal.
November 21, 2022 - Inside the Saudi strategy to keep the world hooked on oil.
November 21, 2022 - Cutting-edge tech made this tiny country a major exporter of food.
November 18, 2022 - Feels like 136 degrees. Can humans survive this?
November 18, 2022 - The Amazon forest is approaching a tipping point. Some regions are starting to collapse.
November 14, 2022 - Stymied by protests, Iran unleashes its wrath on its youth.
November 9, 2022 - Who's driving climate change? New data catalogs 72,000 polluters and counting.
November 6, 2022 - U.N. weather report: Climate woes bad and getting worse faster.
October 28, 2022 - More Canadians than ever have no religious affiliation, census shows.
October 27, 2022 - How Christian nationalism is taking root across the world.
October 27, 2022 - Sudan: No-one to intervene for woman sentenced to stoning.
October 27, 2022 - The selfish case for climate justice.
October 26, 2022 - Climate pledges are falling short and a chaotic future looks more like reality.
October 24, 2022 - Universal basic income has been tested repeatedly. It works. Will America ever embrace it?
October 23, 2022 - Christian nationalism is a racist, ahistorical ideology of violence.
October 23, 2022 - LGBTQ people in Qatar jailed and beaten ahead of World Cup.
October 22, 2022 - Fishless fish: The next big trend in the seafood industry.
October 20, 2022 - Stalked, tortured, disappeared: Iranian authorities have a playbook for silencing dissent.
October 18, 2022 - What does the future hold for Montreal's unused church buildings?
October 17, 2022 - Nigeria flooding worsened by climate change kills more than 600 and displaces 1.3 million.
October 17, 2022 - Iran faces dilemma as children join protests.
October 17, 2022 - The world continues to ignore the radicalization of India.
October 16, 2022 - Nigeria election: Dangers of being religious in a religious nation.
October 11, 2022 - Extreme heat could make parts of Asia, Africa uninhabitable in decades.
October 11, 2022 - Students across the U.S. walk out in protest of discrimination by religious schools.
October 10, 2022 - Pakistan: Activists sound alarm over hate crimes, blasphemy claims.
October 6, 2022 - American Christianity is on a path toward being a tool of theocratic authoritarianism.
October 5, 2022 - A changing monsoon is putting a quarter of humanity in peril.
September 21, 2022 - Iran unrest: Women burn headscarves at anti-hijab protests.
September 20, 2022 - Polluters must pay - U.N. Secretary General calls for tax on fossil fuel companies.
September 17, 2022 - Two charts show America's Christian majority is on track to end.
September 13, 2022 - California's giant new batteries kept the lights on in a heat wave.
September 13, 2022 - U.S. Christian majority could fade in coming decades, models find.
September 13, 2022 - World heading into 'uncharted territory of destruction', says climate report.
September 12, 2022 - All Earth's records are being broken: The natural cycle no longer applies.
September 12, 2022 - Fifty million people now trapped in modern slavery in a 'surge of exploitation'.
September 6, 2022 - Iran sentences two LGBT activists to death.
August 30, 2022 - They called for female leadership at the Vatican. They were arrested.
August 22, 2022 - How a four-day workweek could be better for the climate.
August 16, 2022 - Saudi woman given 34-year prison sentence for using Twitter.
August 10, 2022 - A hotter world means more disease outbreaks in our future.
August 8, 2022 - Climate change is supercharging most infectious diseases, new study finds.
August 4, 2022 - Seven years of sex abuse. How Mormon officials let it happen.
August 4, 2022 - How climate breakdown is supercharging toll of extreme weather.
August 1, 2022 - How the world's biggest four-day workweek trial run changed people's lives
July 26, 2022 - Nigerian Christians protest Muslim-Muslim ticket as a 'declaration of war.'
July 24, 2022 - An 'imposter Christianity' is threatening American democracy.
July 20, 2022 - U.N. slams killings, rights abuses under Afghanistan's Taliban.
July 18, 2022 - Goodbye God.
July 17, 2022 - Can planting a trillion new trees save the world?
July 13, 2022 - Sudan woman faces death by stoning for adultery.
July 12, 2022 - Humanist ceremonies give non-religious the enlightenment they find lacking in church.
July 6, 2022 - Fewer in U.S. now see Bible as literal word of God.
June 28, 2022 - Germany: Record numbers leaving churches.
June 28, 2022 - Abandoning God: Christianity plummets as 'non-religious' surges in Australian census.
June 8, 2022 - Warned of massive climate-led extinction, a U.S. energy firm funded crisis denial ads.
June 7, 2022 - Vatican's Pius XII archives begin to shed light on WWII pope.
June 6, 2022 - Carbon dioxide levels are now 50% higher than during pre-industrial era.
June 3, 2022 - The good, the bad and the ugly in State Department's new religious freedom report.
May 26, 2022 - The Hinduization of India is nearly complete.
May 26, 2022 - Taliban morality police tighten their grip on Afghan women.
May 25, 2022 - World's largest vats for growing 'no-kill' meat to be built in the U.S.
May 24, 2022 - No atheist has done this much damage to the Christian faith.
May 24, 2022 - Climate worries galvanize a new pro-nuclear movement in the U.S.
May 21, 2022 - Planting mangroves to fight climate effects.
May 19, 2022 - The U.S. Department of Energy has announced a multi-billion dollar effort to kickstart a carbon dioxide removal industry in the U.S.
May 12, 2022 - Mob kills student over blasphemy in northern Nigerian college.
May 11, 2022 - The 'carbon bombs' set to trigger catastrphophic climate breakdown.
May 1, 2022 - America's struggle with secularism.
April 28, 2022 - India reels from wave of religious violence.
April 28, 2022 - Global warming risks most cataclysmic extinction of marine life in 250 million years.
April 27, 2022 - Caste doesn't just exist in India or in Hinduism - it is pervasive across many religions in South Asia and the diaspora.
April 20, 2022 - See which brands haven't quit Russia.
April 20, 2022 - Parts of the world are heading toward an insect apocalypse, study suggests.
April 20, 2022 - Religious clashes across India spark fears of further violence.
April 14, 2022 - East and Horn of Africa prepare for worst drought in decades - linked to climate change.
April 12, 2022 - Human rights and democracy eroding worldwide, U.S. finds.
April 12, 2022 - In Africa, cyclones getting worse with climate change.
April 10, 2022 - Little time left to save Earth.
April 5, 2022 - Humanist jailed for 24 years after pleading guilty to blasphemy.
April 4, 2022 - Amid backsliding on climate, the renewables effort now must be tripled.
April 3, 2022 - The world must demand the Taliban stop restricting girls' education.
March 8, 2022 - Yale professor lists companies not boycotting Russia.
March 3, 2022 - Seeing Ukraine through climate change lens.
February 28, 2022 - IPCC issues bleakest warning yet on impacts of climate breakdown.
February 25, 2022 - Risk of uncontrollable wildfires will rise and spread globally, United Nations warns.
February 21, 2022 - In Kuwait, women see their rights increasingly stifled.
February 16, 2022 - Belgium to offer employees four-day working week.
February 13, 2022 - The seeds of political violence are being sown in church.
January 28, 2022 - New Supreme Court justice should be atheist, humanist, agnostic or unaffiliated.
January 28, 2022 - Birds are remarkable and beautiful animals and they're disappearing from our world.
January 26, 2022 - How houses of worship became hotbeds of graft.
January 26, 2022 - The backlash against rightwing evangelicals is reshaping American politics and faith.
January 20, 2022 - Finland's effort to save the planet by ending all waste.
January 19, 2022 - Cultivated meat passes the taste test.
January 19, 2022 - Woman sentenced to death in Pakistan over 'blastphemous' WhatsApp activity.
January 14, 2022 - American secularism is growing - and growing more complicated.
January 11, 2022 - 2021 was the hottest year on record for the world's oceans.
January 10, 2022 - The Pope is wrong. Choosing to have few or no children is the opposite of selfish.
January 5, 2022 - Choosing pets over babies is 'selfish and diminishes us', says Pope.
December 18, 2021 - Non-believers across Africa risk freedom and family support.
December 17, 2021 - The planet is failing. What does that look like in every single country?
December 14, 2021 - Climate change has destabilized the Earth's poles, putting the rest of the planet in peril.
December 10, 2021 - Native Americans' farming practices may help feed a warming world.
December 10, 2021 - Buy nothing groups offer antidote to waste, isolation with a world of free stuff.
December 3, 2021 - Atheists find community on Youtube - and in person.
November 17, 2021 - Surf and Turf: How seaweed helps cows become better climate citizens.
November 12, 2021 - The Earth's secret miracle worker is not a plant or an animal - it's fungi.
November 9, 2021 - Exposure to extreme urban heat tripled since 1980s.
November 6, 2021 - Striking photos of nature as the world faces climate crisis.
November 3, 2021 - The world will burn through its carbon budget in 11 years unless emissions are drastically curbed, scientists say.
October 30, 2021 - World leaders formally endorse new global corporate minimum tax.
October 26, 2021 - Greenhouse gas levels reach new record in 2020.
October 25, 2021 - The Netflix series that should make religious people uncomfortable.
October 23, 2021 - Where on Earth will we be able to live in 20 years?
October 21, 2021 - Many around the world want political change.
October 21, 2021 - Climate crisis likely to fuel conflicts over water and migration, U.S. analyses say.
October 21, 2021 - From the Arctic to Africa, wildlife is being hit hard by climate change.
October 12, 2021 - A recipe for fighting climate change and feeding the world.
October 11, 2021 - At least 85 percent of the world's people affected by human-induced climate change, new studies show.
October 10, 2021 - Threatened by climate change, a California winemaker switches to carbon farming and hopes more vineyards join.
October 8, 2021 - Global deal to end tax havens moves ahead as nations back 15% rate.
October 6, 2021 - Report finds Catholic clergy in France likely abused more than 200,000 minors.
October 5, 2021 - Planet lost startling amount of coral reefs in 10 years, report finds.
September 30, 2021 - We're living through one of the most explosive extinction episodes ever.
September 30, 2021 - Locals are working to restore coral reefs in beloved travel destinations. You can help.
September 29, 2021 - U.S. announces 23 extinct species - thousands at risk withing decades.
September 23, 2021 - One-in-four Americans identify as nones. Why are millions leaving organized religion?
September 21, 2021 - Hope isn't a climate change option - but activism is.
September 17, 2021 - I tried lab-grown fish maw. Here's why it could help save our oceans.
September 16, 2021 - World's first battery-electric freight train unveiled.
September 14, 2021 - Proctor & Gamble, the company behind Tide and Bounty, pledges net zero emissions by 2040.
September 13, 2021 - How Afghan women are resisting Taliban rule.
September 13, 2021 - Extreme flooding to increase as temperatures rise, study finds.
September 13, 2021 - Climate activists are being killed for trying to save our planet. There is a way to help.
September 13, 2021 - Meat accounts for nearly 60% of all greenhouse gases from food production, study finds.
September 10, 2021 - In the bottom of the Pacific Ocean lies a solution to the imminent battery shortage. But at what cost?
September 10, 2021 - A climate solution lies deep under the ocean - but accessing it could have huge environmental costs.
September 7, 2021 - Inaction on climate change is greatest threat to health, 220 medical journals warn.
September 7, 2021 - Maritime group backs carbon levy for cargo ships.
September 6, 2021 - How to deradicalize your town.
August 31, 2021 - Costa Rica's environmental minister wants to build a green economy. She just needs time.
August 29, 2021 - In India, a debate over population control turns explosive.
August 27, 2021 - Good news: The most popular material on Earth is great for storing CO2.
August 26, 2021 - The new chief chaplain at Harvard? An atheist.
August 18, 2021 - The U.S. public schools redesigning buildings with climate in mind.
August 15, 2021 - Cargill's CEO on a sustainable future of food in a warming world.
August 13, 2021 - July was world's hottest month ever recorded.
August 10, 2021 - Meaningful ways individuals can put pressure on corporations to solve the climate crisis.
August 10, 2021 - Code red: UN scientists warn of worsening global warming.
August 6, 2021 - Reduce methane or face climate catastrophe scientists warn.
August 5, 2021 - Could religion be fueling the gender pay gap?
August 5, 2021 - What happens when millions - or billions - of sea animals die on one day?
August 5, 2021 - Bottled water environmental impact up to 3500 times greater than tap water.
August 5, 2021 - Scientists spot warning signs of Gulf Stream collapse.
August 2, 2021 - 70 years ago Walter Plywaski fought for atheists' right to become citizens - here's why his story is worth remembering.
August 2, 2021 - Scientists expected thawing wetlands in Siberia's permafrost. What they found is much more dangerous.
August 2, 2021 - An English castle stood for centuries. Climate change is prompting its collapse.
August 2, 2021 - As water table lowers, Tehran and much of Iran are slowly sinking.
August 2, 2021 - Climate change is endangering sacred land. For these native women, it threatens 'everything we are.'
August 1, 2021 - Africa's most populous city of over 24 million may soon be vulnerable as sea levels rise due to the climate crisis.
July 27, 2021 - How climate change is making parts of the world too hot and humid to survive.
July 22, 2021 - Hey, world, are you noticing? Floods! Fires! Could it be time to do something about climate change?
July 22, 2021 - Madagascar's famine is the first in modern history to be solely caused by global warming.
July 17, 2021 - You don't have to be Christian to think of yourself as a good person.
July 14, 2021 - EU's bold climate roadmap.
July 12, 2021 - U.N. sets out Paris-style plan to cut extinction rate tenfold.
July 10, 2021 - Global tax overhaul gains steam as G20 backs new levies.
July 9, 2021 - Cruise ships are back and it's a catastrophe for the environment.
July 9, 2021 - New York City warned 'climate change is here' as storm floods streets and subways.
July 9, 2021 - Why record-breaking overnight temperatures are so concerning.
July 9, 2021 - Heat wave killed marine wildlife en masse.
July 7, 2021 - The climate crisis will create two classes - those who can flee and those who cannot.
July 7, 2021 - North America endured hottest June on record.
July 6, 2021 - No soil. No growing seasons. Just add water and technology.
July 4, 2021 - Biodiversity loss is a risk to the global financial system.
July 4, 2021 - Is it time to begin rewilding the oceans?
July 4, 2021 - Unprecedented heat, hundreds dead and a town destroyed. Climate change is frying the Northern Hemisphere.
July 3, 2021 - Climate change has already gotten deadly. Scientists say it will get worse.
July 1, 2021 - 130 countries signed on to an American-led effort to create a 15 percent minimum corporate tax rate.
July 1, 2021 - Abandoned oil wells in the U.S. are belching a powerful greenhouse gas. This non-profit aims to plug them.
July 1, 2021 - Canada's record-breaking temperatures are an alarm. We must act.
June 24, 2021 - More than just rain and snow. Climate change will hit air travel in surprising ways.
June 18, 2021 - 2020 saw record number of displaced people.
June 8, 2021 - Your next car and clothes dryer could help save our planet.
June 7, 2021 - The scandal rocking the evangelical world.
June 7, 2021 - Despite pandemic, carbon dioxide level reaches historic high.
June 5, 2021 - G7 backs Biden's sweeping overhaul of global tax system.
June 4, 2021 - European finance ministers say deal to stop global tax abuse is within reach.
June 2, 2021 - Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to build new kind of reactor in Wyoming.
May 28, 2021 - An Australian inventor wants to stop global warming by electrifying everything.
May 26, 2021 - Is this the turning point for big oil?
May 26, 2021 - Climate change is accelerating, scientists warn.
May 17, 2021 - Biden White House officials hold first meeting with atheist, secular groups.
May 16, 2021 - Long working hours are a killer, WHO study shows.
May 12, 2021 - Urban heat waves, loss of Alaskan permafrost signal intensifying climate change.
May 7, 2021 - I have faith: A secular response to tragedy.
May 5, 2021 - World risks runaway Antarctic ice melt if Paris targets not met.
April 30, 2021 - Pakistan decries EU Parliament's move on blasphemy laws.
April 30, 2021 - An overhaul of the global tax system can wait no longer.
April 29, 2021 - U.N. condemns one year detention of Nigerian humanist Mubarak Bala.
April 28, 2021 - Earth's glaciers are melting faster than ever, satellites show.
April 28, 2021 - Using plants to save the planet.
April 22, 2021 - The hollowing out of American religion.
April 22, 2021 - Humanity's greatest ally against climate change is the Earth itself.
April 16, 2021 - Researchers say cool white paint could combat urban heat.
April 13, 2021 - Hundreds of companies call for the U.S. to slash carbon emissions.
April 8, 2021 - Why is U.S. church membership at a new low?
April 8, 2021 - Sudenese rivals sign agreement to separate state from religion.
April 7, 2021 - America is losing its religion.
April 7, 2021 - Pandemic has impacted human rights of millions, says Amnesty International.
April 6, 2021 - Allergic reaction to U.S. religious right fueling decline in religion, experts say.
April 5, 2021 - Spain's trial of a four-day workweek could make the idea go mainstream.
March 29, 2021 - Church membership in the U.S. has fallen below the majority for the first time.
March 22, 2021 - Less than half of Britons expected to tick 'Christian' in U.K. census.
March 13, 2021 - Planet first, or a Big Ag giveaway?
March 8, 2021 - When a California city gave people a guaranteed income, they worked more, not less.
March 8, 2021 - Global heating pushes tropical regions towards limits of human livability.
March 4, 2021 - Butterflies - numbers plummeting in the US west as climate crisis takes toll.
February 26, 2021 - Biden is hiking up the cost of carbon.
February 26, 2021 - U.N.: Countries' pledges to cut emissions are far too meager to halt climate change.
February 24, 2021 - The arrest of this activist should put India's 'democracy' title in question.
February 22, 2021 - Tiny Costa Rica wants the world to take giant climate step.
February 22, 2021 - Human rights under attack during COVID, says U.N. head.
February 20, 2021 - Seagrass is a vital weapon against climate change, but we're killing it.
February 18, 2021 - Human destruction of nature is 'senseless and suicidal, warns U.N. chief.
February 18, 2021 - Very few of world's rivers undamaged by humanity, study finds.
February 17, 2021 - The battle over climate change's most important number.
February 15, 2021 - Bill Gates: Fight against climate change like a world war.
February 12, 2021 - Burgers are great, but not for Earth.
February 10, 2021 - Ikea's ambitious plan to make its cheap furniture last forever.
February 9, 2021 - Biden's new conservation corps stirs hopes of nature-focused hiring spree.
February 9, 2021 - Fossil fuels caused 8.7 million deaths globally in 2018, research finds.
February 5, 2021 - Planting trees sounds like a simple climate fix. It's anything but.
February 5, 2021 - It's time to talk about violent Christian extremism.
February 5, 2021 - Secular groups praise Biden's agenda but express concerns about religious rhetoric.
February 4, 2021 - Biden calls for expanded efforts to protect LGBTQ rights globally.
January 28, 2021 - Every country has its own climate risks. What's yours?
January 26, 2021 - Now is the time to rethink your wardrobe, with an eye toward sustainability.
January 23, 2021 - I only know one god - and that's me: non-believers on the meaning of life.
January 22, 2021 - Planting crops - and carbon, too.
January 19, 2021 - The dying religion of Christian America.
January 18, 2021 - Businesses aim to pull greenhouse gases from the air. It's a gamble.
January 7, 2021 - U.S. disaster costs doubled in 2020, reflecting costs of climate change.
December 30, 2020 - The 4 steps that will increase happiness, according to a new study.
December 25, 2020 - Japan sets plan to be carbon-free by 2050.
December 19, 2020 - 2020 was supposed to be our best last chance to save the planet. So how did we do?
December 12, 2020 - Time to declare 'climate emergency', urges U.N. chief.
December 10, 2020 - About 30% of animal, plant species at risk of extinction, says IUCN Red List.
December 9, 2020 - The world is headed for 3 degrees of warming this century, U.N. report warns - but a green pandemic recovery could offer hope.
December 6, 2020 - How to build an economy that actually takes care of people.
December 6, 2020 - When climate disaster strikes, it's renewable energy that keeps the lights on.
December 3, 2020 - The Supreme Court is colliding with a less-religious America.
December 1, 2020 - What if we just gave people enough money to live on?
November 30, 2020 - Deforestation in Brazilian Amazon surges to 12-year high.
November 19, 2020 - U.S. greenhouse gas emissions set to drop to lowest level in three decades.
November 13, 2020 - The world's largest wetlands are on fire. That's a disaster for all of us.
November 9, 2020 - Make no mistake: Biden's success is an important win for the world.
November 7, 2020 - A Biden victory positions America for a 180-degree turn on climate change.
November 6, 2020 - Religious freedom is no excuse for discrimination against gay couples.
November 4, 2020 - As climate disasters pile up, a radical proposal gains traction.
November 1, 2020 - Trump has gone a long way toward hindering democracy in other countries.
October 27, 2020 - Arctic methane deposits starting to release, study finds.
October 18, 2020 - Alaska's new climate threat: tsunamis linked to melting permafrost.
October 13, 2020 - U.N. warns that world risks becoming 'uninhabitable hell' for millions.
September 17, 2020 - Fire, flood, smoke, cyclones: the climate crisis is everywhere.
September 14, 2020 - Investors that manage $47 trillion demand world's biggest polluters back plan for net-zero emissions.
September 11, 2020 - The future has arrived. These explosive fires are our climate change wakeup call.
September 9, 2020 - Humans are decimating wildlife, World Wildlife Fund says.
September 9, 2020 - Return of Myanmar's smiling turtle is reason to be cheerful.
September 9, 2020 - Global temperature could exceed limit set by global leaders in next decade.
September 8, 2020 - Why masks are a religious issue.
September 8, 2020 - South Korea's defiant churches face backlash for hampering COVID-19 response.
September 7, 2020 - Sudan ends 30 years of Islamic law by separating religion, state.
August 27, 2020 - Hurricane Laura's rapid intensification is a sign of a warming climate.
August 27, 2020 - The harsh realities of religious violence in the Middle East.
August 26, 2020 - Unless we change course, the U.S. agricultural system could collapse.
August 22, 2020 - 2020 is proving another disastrous year for our Earth's climate.
August 13, 2020 - The end of the secular republic.
August 13, 2020 - The planet's wildlife is at risk, but a group of experts has a plan to help.
August 12, 2020 - Giving up on God: The global decline of religion.
August 12, 2020 - Baghdad's record heat offers glimpse of world's climate change future.
July 29, 2020 - How the global climate fight could be lost if Trump is re-elected.
July 28, 2020 - Migratory river fish populations plunge 76% in the past 50 years.
July 27, 2020 - U.N.: 10,000 extra virus-linked child hunger deaths a month.
July 23, 2020 - Ocean plastics could triple if we don't act now, warn experts.
July 23, 2020 - The great climate migration has begun.
July 23, 2020 - A U.N. report called for a universal basic income for the world's poorest people to allow them to stay home and slow the pandemic.
July 19, 2020 - U.N. chief: Inequalities have put the world 'at the breaking point'.
July 16, 2020 - Activists react as Sudan ditches Islamist laws.
July 16, 2020 - Is your grocery list sustainable? We asked climate experts how they shop.
July 15, 2020 - Human activity played key role in Siberia's record heat, study says.
July 15, 2020 - Are pandemic protests the newest form of science-religion conflict?
July 15, 2020 - Postal workers are dying in heat waves. Climate change will make it much worse.
July 14, 2020 - Global methane emissions reach a record high.
July 8, 2020 - Churches were eager to reopen. Now they are a major source of coronavirus cases.
July 8, 2020 - Spreading rock dust on the ground could pull carbon from the air, researchers say.
July 7, 2020 - How the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster became the world's fastest growing religion.
July 7, 2020 - The price of white Evangelical patriarchy.
July 1, 2020 - White supremacist ideas have historical roots in U.S. Christianity.
June 23, 2020 - The coming 'religion recession'.
June 18, 2020 - World has six months to avert climate crisis, says energy expert.
June 17, 2020 - Burundi president dies, had COVID-19, after insisting God would protect the country.
June 17, 2020 - It's only important if you eat food: inside a film on the honeybee crisis.
June 13, 2020 - The COVID-19 pandemic is unleashing a tidal wave of plastic waste.
June 11, 2020 - It's time for the church to make restituion for racial sin.
June 4, 2020 - Earth's carbon dioxide levels hit record high, despite coronavirus.
June 4, 2020 - How some Mississippi teens are saving their town from climate change.
June 3, 2020 - Australia's Great Barrier Reef suffers its most extensive coral bleaching event.
June 1, 2020 - Sixth mass extinction of wildlife is accelerating, scientists warn.
May 29, 2020 - U.S. southwest in grip of historic megadrought.
May 19, 2020 - Dramatic 17 percent plunge in greenhouse gases attributed to coronavirus shutdowns.
May 8, 2020 - Humidity and heat extremes are on the verge of exceeding limits of human survivability, study finds.
May 6, 2020 - 'Instead of coronavirus, the hunger will kill us.' A global food crisis looms.
April 29, 2020 - In fast-warming Minnesota, scientists are trying to plant forests of the future.
April 27, 2020 - Meteorologists say 2020 on course to be the hottest year since records began.
April 24, 2020 - Blasphemy to be decriminalized in Scottish hate crime bill.
April 24, 2020 - The pandemic could be a call to action on climate change.
April 22, 2020 - The covid-19 crisis creates a chance to reset economies on a sustainable footing.
April 22, 2020 - As the virus keeps people home, Earth gets wilder and cleaner.
April 21, 2020 - Milan announces ambitious scheme to reduce car use after lockdown.
April 17, 2020 - Child sex abuse is endemic in Pakistan's religious schools. But despite scores of police reports, no Islamic religious clerics have been convicted.
April 16, 2020 - There's no more water: Climate change on a drying island.
April 15, 2020 - As humans stay indoors, wild animals take back what was once theirs.
April 15, 2020 - A virus that hits all faiths tests religions' ties to science.
April 12, 2020 - In India, coronavirus fans religious hatred.
April 10, 2020 - During coronavirus crisis, the U.S. Congress's first caucus for non-religious belief seeks a larger role in promoting science.
April 9, 2020 - In coronavirus lockdown, nature bounces back-but for how long?
April 9, 2020 - Animal viruses are jumping to humans. Forest loss makes it easier.
April 6, 2020 - Covid-19 should make us rethink our destructive relationship with the natural world.
April 6, 2020 - The Great Barrier Reef has experienced its most widespread mass bleaching event on record.
April 2, 2020 - States consider whether religious services qualify as essential.
April 1, 2020 - How a prayer meeting at a French megachurch may have led to scores of deaths.
March 31, 2020 - Coronavirus and Islam: Pakistani clerics refuse to shut down mosques.
March 29, 2020 - Churchgoers all over the world ignore physical distancing advice.
March 28, 2020 - Whales face more fatal ship collisions as waters warm.
March 27, 2020 - The religious right's hostility to science is crippling the U.S. response to coronavirus.
March 26, 2020 - 'God will protect us': Coronavirus spreads through an already struggling Pakistan.
March 18, 2020 - Greenland lost a near-record 600 billion tons of ice last summer.
March 13, 2020 - Why we panic about the coronavirus but not about the climate crisis.
March 10, 2020 - Carbon pricing represents the best answer to our climate danger.
March 2, 2020 - Can we really combat climate change by consuming less?
February 22, 2020 - How peer pressure can help save the planet.
February 20, 2020 - How Hindu supremacists are tearing India apart.
February 19, 2020 - Boston harbor brings ashore a new enemy: rising seas.
February 19, 2020 - Methane is a hard-hitting greenhouse gas. Now scientists say we're dramatically underestimating how much we're emitting.
February 14, 2020 - Here's what happens to nature when humans get out of the way.
February 9, 2020 - Swiss vote to penalize public homophobia.
February 6, 2020 - Climate change is bad news for bumblebees.
February 1, 2020 - Scientists alarmed to discover warm water at vital point beneath Antarctica's 'doomsday glacier'.
January 25, 2020 - India's iconic democracy feels like it is under siege.
January 22, 2020 - The audacious effort to reforest the planet.
January 16, 2020 - Turning carbon into concrete.
January 13, 2020 - 2019 was a record year for ocean temperatures.
January 13, 2020 - U.N. biodiversity plan calls for protecting 30% of Earth by 2030.
January 9, 2020 - A new protein source made from air could be a planet-saving game changer.
January 8, 2020 - Over 1 billion animals feared dead in Australian wildfires.
January 7, 2020 - In a church of their own, Latino atheists fear no god. But mom? That's another matter.
January 6, 2020 - Australia's apocalyptic fires are a warning to the world.
January 5, 2020 - Climate change is playing havoc with Mexico's monarch butterfly migration.
December 30, 2019 - Where will the next decade take religion?
December 30, 2019 - Innovative fashion designers lead the way on sustainability.
December 30, 2019 - 7 numbers show how dire climate change got this decade.
December 30, 2019 - On land, Australia's rising heat is apocalyptic. In the ocean, it's even worse.
December 27, 2019 - World's richest 500 earn another $1.2 trillion in 2019.
December 24, 2019 - More Americans celebrating a secular Christmas.
December 24, 2019 - 28 numbers that explain the state of planet Earth in 2019.
December 22, 2019 - These fossils remind us how fleeting life on Earth can be - and how much peril we're in.
December 20, 2019 - As Modi pushes a Hindu agenda, a secular India fights back.
December 20, 2019 - How do we know global warming is real?
December 20, 2019 - Top scientists warn that Amazon rainforest has hit a 'tipping point'.
December 15, 2019 - The water crisis in cities everywhere is worsening already terrible inequality.
December 15, 2019 - Longest UN climate talks end with no deal on carbon markets.
December 12, 2019 - Religion and living arrangements around the world.
December 11, 2019 - Arctic In Dire Condition As Climate Change Ravages Long-Frozen Region, Report Warns.
December 10, 2019 - Is it time to retire the global unemployment metric?
December 10, 2019 - Extreme weather patterns are raising the risk of a global food crisis, and climate change will make it worse.
December 8, 2019 - Fractured forests are endangering wildlife, scientists find.
December 7, 2019 - Climate change: Oceans running out of oxygen as temperatures rise.
December 5, 2019 - What happens when hermit crabs confuse plastic trash for shells? An avalanche of death.
December 5, 2019 - You just lived through the warmest decade on record, and it's only going to get hotter.
December 4, 2019 - Global carbon emissions will hit a record high in 2019.
December 2, 2019 - Dead sperm whale had 220 pounds of garbage in its stomach.
December 2, 2019 - 20 million people have fled their homes because of climate chaos since 2008.
December 1, 2019 - Warming waters, moving fish: How climate change is reshaping Iceland.
November 27, 2019 - I'm an atheist and I don't need God to give thanks or show gratitude.
November 27, 2019 - A crisis in the water is decimating this once-booming fishing town.
November 26, 2019 - How a small stretch of ocean stirred a conservation movement.
November 26, 2019 - Meet the leftist economist with a new story about capitalism.
November 26, 2019 - In a nation of 1.3 billion, too little water, or far too much.
November 26, 2019 - In bleak report, U.N. says drastic action is only way to avoid worst effects of climate change.
November 24, 2019 - Faith could bring us together. But too often it divides us.
November 22, 2019 - The world refuses to slow its suicidal course toward catastrophic climate change.
November 8, 2019 - Taking a different approach to climate change.
November 8, 2019 - U.S. Latinos are no longer majority-Catholic.
November 4, 2019 - Trump formally pulls out of landmark Paris climate agreement.
November 4, 2019 - In overworked Japan, Microsoft tested a four-day workweek. Productivity soared 40 percent.
November 3, 2019 - Humanists UK launch religious-free assembly materials for schools.
November 1, 2019 - The numbers that help explain why protests are rocking countries around the world.
November 1, 2019 - Restaurants put climate change on the menu.
November 1, 2019 - The ice used to protect them. Now their island is crumbling into the sea.
October 29, 2019 - Rising seas will erase more cities by 2050, new research shows.
October 28, 2019 - Dutch inventor unveils device to scoop plastic out of rivers.
October 24, 2019 - California wildfires tell a scary story about a warming world.
October 23, 2019 - Climate change will cost us even more than we think.
October 22, 2019 - The worst day in Earth's history contains an ominous warning.
October 17, 2019 - A new analysis shows that the decline of Christianity in the U.S. continues at a rapid pace.
October 14, 2019 - God is now Trump's co-conspirator.
October 14, 2019 - Air mile programs should be banned to help reduce carbon emissions.
October 12, 2019 - Fire, floods and power outages: Our climate future has arrived.
October 7, 2019 - Meet Extinction Rebellion, the climate group shutting down cities around the world.
October 6, 2019 - What's so special about "religious belief."
October 4, 2019 - Dengue cases are surging around the world. Some blame a changing climate.
October 4, 2019 - Emaciated grizzly bears are heartbraking victims of climate change.
October 3, 2019 - In fast-thawing Siberia, extreme warming is warping the ground, upending agriculture and spurring an exodus of climate refugees.
September 25, 2019 - 3 billion North American birds have vanished in the last 50 years.
September 25, 2019 - Climate change will lead to extreme coastal flooding in some areas every year.
September 23, 2019 - Most of the world's biggest firms unlikely to meet climate targets.
September 23, 2019 - How 6 countries are stepping up to meet the Paris climate goals.
September 23, 2019 - Ocean heatwave threatens severe damage to Hawaii coral.
September 23, 2019 - U.N. chief urges action to make Earth carbon neutral by 2050.
September 20, 2019 - Here are 36 ways to stop climate catastrophe.
September 20, 2019 - The climate crisis explained in 10 charts.
September 20, 2019 - Greta Thunberg and school students lead global climate strike.
September 19, 2019 - North America has lost 29% of its birds since 1970.
September 17, 2019 - Coral gardeners bring back Jamaica's reefs, piece by piece.
September 17, 2019 - Almost everywhere, fewer children are dying.
September 16, 2019 - Most American teens are frightened by climate change and about 1 in 4 are taking action.
September 13, 2019 - Meet the world's first smoke-free country where national happiness is prioritized over economic growth.
September 13, 2019 - Exploring a timeless wilderness before the drilling begins.
September 11, 2019 - Large parts of the globe already passed crucial climate threshold.
September 9, 2019 - Secular Student Alliance has seen growth at religiously affiliated colleges.
September 4, 2019 - Global heating made Hurricane Dorian bigger, wetter and more deadly.
September 3, 2019 - California city experiments with universal basic income.
September 2, 2019 - Ireland will plant 440 million trees by 2040 to combat climate change.
August 30, 2019 - Why people hate religion.
August 30, 2019 - Rising seas threaten Egypt's fabled port city of Alexandria.
August 30, 2019 - The Great Barrier Reef's future looks grim.
August 29, 2019 - How the female body became the scapegoat for white Evangelicals.
August 27, 2019 - Fires have engulfed Bolivia's largest city in smoke, and are threatening villages, farms and endangered species.
August 26, 2019 - The murder of the Amazon is speeding up.
August 25, 2019 - Blasphemy laws are quietly vanishing in liberal democracies.
August 20, 2019 - How to cut down on single-use plastics at home.
August 20, 2019 - Forest elephants defend against climate change.
August 15, 2019 - July was Earth's hottest month since records began.
August 13, 2019 - As Phoenix heats up, the night comes alive.
August 13, 2019 - Pakistan moves to ban single-use plastic bags.
August 13, 2019 - Extreme climate change has arrived in America.
August 13, 2019 - This university has banned beef products to help save the planet.
August 12, 2019 - Religiously unaffiliated people face harassment in a growing number of countries.
August 12, 2019 - The Earth's food supply is under threat.
August 11, 2019 - Indians plant 220 million trees in a single day.
August 8, 2019 - Earth's largest freshwater creatures at risk of extinction.
August 8, 2019 - Climate change is threatening the world's food supply, and the window to address that threat is closing rapidly.
August 6, 2019 - Water crisis looms for a quarter of humanity.
August 2, 2019 - This Irish teenager may have a solution for a plastic-free ocean.
August 2, 2019 - The nuns who bought and sold human beings.
August 2, 2019 - What is the future of religion?
August 1, 2019 - The Amazon rainforest is disappearing at an alarming rate.
