We received the following plea for prayer from a friend of LWCCN working with the Maasai in Kenya. There are many such stories happening around the world right now; perhaps this short glimpse into one of these tragedies can help us all to focus our prayers and other efforts on […]
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The Global Campaign for Creation Care and the Gospel began in November 2012 with the Jamaica Consultation. At that meeting an idea was born to bring the creation care message to the global church as quickly as possible. Ten years later, even with a global pandemic, we can say that […]
We have collected the following recent news stories from around the web. Some of them may be of interest to you: In Europe, bus stops are sprouting pollinator gardens… “Earth is our only shareholder” – the CEO of Patagonia gives away the entire company. Australia wants to bring the extinction […]
There are few situations in our modern world more fraught with injustice than climate change. We are pleased to note that The Justice Conference, Brittany Michalski, A Rocha USA’s Project Coordinator for Climate Stewards USA, is inviting us to join The Justice Conference in Denver, CO this weekend. It is […]
The disastrous floods in Pakistan can hardly be captured in pictures or words. As of this writing, about 1300 people have been killed, with perhaps 1/3 of them children. 33 million people affected, more than a million houses destroyed. The entire agricultural crop (fields and animals) wiped out. Disease rampant. […]
In scouring the internet for news items, we stumbled across two indications of progress: It appears that jaguars have been successfully reintroduced to Ibera Park, an Argentine wetland. 70 years after they went extinct in that area. In a joint statement obtained by Zenger News on Thursday, Tompkins Conservation and […]
An outside observer might be forgiven for thinking that our biggest, and maybe even our only environmental problem is climate change. While we agree that human caused climate change is indeed a huge problem looming on the horizon (and for many, far closer even than that), we dare not ignore […]
Doubtless you were as dismayed as we were to learn a few days ago that the beautiful, magnificent, harmless monarch butterfly has joined thousands of other insect species on the endangered species list: WASHINGTON (AP) — The monarch butterfly fluttered a step closer to extinction Thursday, as scientists put the […]
It’s hard to keep up with the climate news these days. A quick search of flooding in Google News gives the following headlines in just the last week: Sidney, Australia Bangla Desh Pakistan Nicaragua Brazil Philippines Ghana China And a summary story on the connections between flooding and climate change […]
It shouldn’t surprise us that the human tendency to trash our surroundings follows us – and sometimes even seems to precede our arrival – where ever we go. Thus this news item from NASA: Human Trash Discovered on Mars No human being has yet set foot on Mars, but something […]