Science

The scientific community reports that 2023 was the hottest year on record. Carmelite climate scientist Fr. Eduardo Agosta Scarel says this evidence should empower Catholics to do something about climate change.

Catholic Energies, an initiative of the Washington-based Catholic Climate Covenant, has converted three of the Passionist order's sites to solar energy, in New York, West Hartford, Connecticut, and — just since this past September — San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Mauna Kea is a dormant 14,000-foot shield volcano. In Native Hawaiian lore, it is the first-born son of the sky father and earth mother. The mountain's dry atmosphere and limited light pollution make for a perfect location to study the skies — one of just a handful on the planet.

The long-term survival of Lebanon's cedar forests is in doubt, as rising temperatures due to climate change threaten to wipe out biodiversity and scar one of the country's most iconic heritage sites for its Christians.

Sustainable diets have been around for ages, but an emerging cookbook genre signals a new appetite for change.

'Inviting young people beyond the traditional and typical provides room for them to experience something beyond the ordinary,' a Springtide Research Institute report states.

Canadian climate science denier Jordan Peterson's new right-wing project launched last week with claims that carbon emissions have "declined" and that the climate crisis is a "secular religion."

Bright green plants at Bishop Walsh School in Cumberland in western Maryland owe their existence to fish, drawing nutrients for their growth from the cold-blooded vertebrates' waste. There's no soil around — only fish, water, plants and a system of overhead lighting, all fastidiously tended by students at western Maryland's only pre-K-12 Catholic school.