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'What is happening on this planet is absolutely extraordinary!'

Russians take highest resolution photo of planet Earth

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/16/2012

A new photo was taken by a Russian weather satellite, known as Elektro-L No. 1, which flies in a geostationary orbit roughly 22,000 miles above the Earth's equator. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Posted by James Drake on the Planet Earth website, Drake received the photo from the Russian ...

Catholic Social Doctrine: The Theology of Ecology

By Andrew M. Greenwell, Esq. • Catholic Online • 5/16/2012

Man, who is made in God's image in a manner entirely distinct from the rest of nature, has a special responsibility to it. Indeed, Christians believe that the Lord "entrusted all of creation to [man's] responsibility, charging [man] to care for its harmony and development. (Cf. 1:26-30)." ...

Relatives of pond water skaters, sea skaters normally lay their eggs on flotsam such as seashells, seabird feathers, tar lumps and pumice. The sharp rise in plastic waste had led to an increase in egg densities in the gyre area, the study found.

Plastic in 'Pacific Garbage Patch' has wrought profound changes to environment

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/9/2012

The "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" floating in the Pacific Ocean has increased 100-fold during the past 40 years, causing "profound" changes to the marine environment, according to a new study. In particular, plastic refuse is everywhere apparent, which provides a home for a different type ...

A meteor storm in Northern California has sent countless 'meteor zombies' scrambling for a different sort of precious metal in Gold Rush Country. The great California gold rush of 1848 began in the Coloma Valley, and now a meteor rush is underway as stardust fragments sell for 20 times the price of gold.

Meteor scavengers run to California gold rush country for new precious metal

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/7/2012

A meteor storm in Northern California has sent countless "meteor zombies" scrambling for a different sort of precious metal in Gold Rush Country. The great California gold rush of 1848 began in the Coloma Valley, and now a meteor rush is underway as stardust fragments sell for 20 times the ...

This Saturday on May 5) at 11:35 p.m., the moon will officially become full. After 25 minutes, the moon will also arrive at perigee, its closest approach to Earth at a distance of 221,802 miles away.

Big beautiful moon takes to skies on Saturday

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/6/2012

This Saturday on May 5) at 11:35 p.m., the moon will officially become full. After 25 minutes, the moon will also arrive at perigee, its closest approach to Earth at a distance of 221,802 miles away. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Another "super-Moon" is on the way. The perigee full Moon ...

Glaciers remain the chief transportation mechanism that moves this material from the interior of land masses such as Greenland and Antarctica to the oceans.

Greenland's glaciers not speeding up as much as previously thought

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/6/2012

Previous studies estimated that the Greenland's glaciers would double their flow by 2010 and continue to maintain that speed, researchers. The glaciers could eventually flow faster than earlier studies estimated, researchers noted in the latest issue of Science magazine. The ice rivers may ...

Amateur photographer Ginger Morneau was snapping away at the Pacific coast of Canada at Victoria's Ogden Point breakwater when she wandered upon a rare, unheard of sight; a seagull that had lit on the waters was snatched up and gobbled by a red squid.

Amateur photographer snaps pics of rare squid attack

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/4/2012

Amateur photographer Ginger Morneau was snapping away at the Pacific coast of Canada at Victoria's Ogden Point breakwater when she wandered upon a rare, unheard of sight; a seagull that had lit on the waters was snatched up and gobbled by a red squid. Posted online, these rare - if grisly ...

Around ten times the size of the modern-day fleas, these insects had an extra-painful bite because of their huge suckers.

Dinosaurs were plagued with monstrous fleas

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/4/2012

Dinosaurs, like our friendly neighborhood pests, were plagued by fleas. However - these prehistoric pests were not out common, everyday blood sucker. These fleas were gigantic, and impaled the dinosaur's soft underbellies and feasted on their blood. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Around ten ...

This bird likely died from eating plastic and other debris harvested from the ocean. The indigestible bits of plastic that lodged themselves inside can be easily seen.

Just what the ocean needs, 27 times more plastic

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 4/29/2012

An oceanographer is suggesting that plastic pollution in the ocean may by as much as 2.5 times worse than presently estimated saying that winds may be driving much of the trash underwater. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Giora Proskurowski says he saw bits of plastic debris floating on the ...

Pope Benedict XVI loves nature as God's creation and gift to us

A Catholic Way of Being Green: We Need a Human Ecology

By Deacon Keith Fournier • Catholic Online • 4/29/2012

The Catholic Church has been green for a lot longer than any modern environmental movement. We are called to a relational environmentalism; one of stewardship with the earth which God has made and entrusted to us to care for and to share. Some in the current "green" movement have lost their way. ...