India rejects net zero carbon emissions target; Australia adopts target but won’t legislate goal
New Delhi, IndiaReuters India on Wednesday rejected calls to announce a net zero carbon emissions target and said it was more important for the world to lay out a pathway to reduce such emissions and avert a dangerous rise in global temperatures. India, the world’s third-biggest emitter of greenhouse gases after China and the United […]
Popes and presidents: A look back at the history of US presidential visits to the Vatican
CLAIRE GIANGRAVÉ, of Religion News Service, looks at the history of meetings between popes and US presidents…
Australian-made iconic ‘Two Ways To Live’ Gospel manual revised to speak to new audiences
Updated 1pm (AEDT)Sydney, Australia The iconic Australian-authored Christian Gospel summary Two Ways To Live, that gives non-believers a succinct explanation of God’s desire for a relationship with them through the sacrifice of Jesus’s death and resurrection, has had a makeover. Since its publication in the early 1980s, the brief “catechism” has reached a global audience, with […]
Essay: A quick guide to climate change jargon – what experts mean by mitigation, carbon neutral and six other key terms
In an article first published on The Conversation, WÄNDI BRUINE DE BRUIN of USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, looks at some of the key terms that will be heard at COP26…
In Kabul children’s hospital, medics struggle with staff shortages
Kabul, AfghanistanReuters In Kabul’s main children’s hospital, the crumbling of Afghanistan’s health system is reflected in the eyes of exhausted staff as they eke out fast-diminishing stocks of medicines. As crowds of mothers and sick children fill waiting rooms in the Indira Gandhi Children’s Hospital, medical staff are squeezing three babies into a single incubator […]