To preserve cultural identity and religious values, protect sacred landEarthBeat Weekly August 8, 2025 ![]() Demonstrators hold signs during a protest outside the annual Alaska Sustainable Energy Conference on June 3, 2025, in Anchorage, Alaska. (AP/Jenny Kane, File) A decade ago, Pope Francis wrote the following in his landmark encyclical "Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home":
Ten years on, this dynamic continues to play out across the United States and the world. Last week in this newsletter, you read about Catholic sisters supporting the defense of Oak Flat, an Apache sacred site in Arizona, and how Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming has been a "sacred wonderland" of spiritual power and religious activity for various faith groups for centuries. This week, Peter Smith of the Associated Press reports when Alaska Natives debate proposals to drill, mine or otherwise develop the landscape of the nation's largest state, it involves more than an environmental or economic question. It's also a spiritual and cultural one. "We have a special spiritual, religious relationship to our river and our land," said Gloria Simeon, a Yup'ik resident of Bethel, Alaska. "Our people have been stewards of this land for millennia, and we've taken that relationship seriously." Read more: Trump's push for drilling, mining sharpens debate for Alaska Natives about land they view as sacred
What else is new on EarthBeat:![]() by John Leo Algo The bishops' conference of the Philippines publicly committed to withdraw its finances no later than 2025 from banks with no clear policies for fossil fuel divestment. They have not yet followed through.
![]() by Ana González Moved by the Holy Spirit, Maria Treviño uses a grassroots approach with the archdioceses of San Antonio, Austin and El Paso, Texas, to embrace the Laudato Si Action Platform.
What's happening in other climate news:E.P.A. moves to cancel $7 billion in grants for solar energy —Maxine Joselow for The New York Times National Academies will review endangerment finding science —Marianne Lavelle for Inside Climate News How flood-ravaged Boston took on the climate deniers – and won —Steve Rose for the Guardian The oil industry wrote a wishlist. Trump's Interior Department is delivering. —Hana Beach and Jimmy Tobias for Public Domain 'Where's the money going?': Why Brazilian towns awash with royalties from oil are still among the poorest —Rafael Oliveira for Agência Pública and the Guardian with Inside Climate News Following the USDA's food and farm funding: Here's what's been canceled and frozen, and resources for those affected –Ayurella Horn-Muller and Lyndsey Gilpin for Grist Stop saying 'the clean energy revolution is inevitable' —Emily Atkin for HEATED
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EarthBeat Weekly: To preserve cultural identity and religious values, protect sacred land
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