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June 13, 2015

Hope rises that papal encyclical on environment will address vitality of water sources

Marine biologist Jean Wiener meets with high school students in late January to discuss their threatened natural resources along the costal area of Caracol, Haiti. Few papal encyclicals have been as eagerly awaited as Pope Francis' upcoming statement on the environment.

IQUITOS, Peru - As floodwaters rose with heavy rains in this Amazonian city, Graciela Tejada and her neighbours found greasy slaughterhouse offal, human feces and used hypodermic needles floating practically to their doorsteps.

Published in Arts News