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The future of some jobs and businesses across the ocean economy have also become less secure as the ocean warms and damage from storms, sea-level rise and marine heat waves increases.

A couple spent years and tens of thousands of dollars trying to have a baby. Then Hurricane Ian hit.

The Diocese of Gweru has responded to the Zimbabwe government's call for more irrigated lands by reconstructing a dam in the country's low rainfall Midlands province to revive agriculture projects there.

Thomas Aquinas College in California announced recently that it had gained energy independence from the California power grid, marking a landmark in the use of alternative energy resources in higher education.

A recent summit organized by the Connecting Climate Minds network brought together hundreds of scientists, doctors, community leaders and other experts from dozens of countries who have spent the past year studying how climate change is harming mental health in their regions.

The Missionaries of the Sacred Heart build bricks from discarded plastic bottles. It's one way people and communities across the world are addressing the gargantuan problem of plastic waste and plastic pollution.

"We, like most congregations, believe the life force that flows through creation, through our land, through the animals, through humanity, is sacred," says Sinsinawa Dominican Sr. Julie Schwab.

"What I find particularly spiritual in an eclipse is that we can predict precisely when it will happen — and plan accordingly — but we cannot predict just what it will look like or how we will react," said Brother Guy Consolmagno. "In that way, it reminds me how God is forever reliable but still always able to surprise us.