Pontifical Academy of Sciences Archives

Conservationists at Vatican conference call for protecting biodiversity

People’s attitudes toward nature as well as their economic systems and consumption habits need to radically change in order to protect biodiversity on the planet and promote a more sustainable and caring world, said participants at a Vatican-sponsored conference.

Humanity’s ancestors: Lucy, Toumai and the evolving journey of prehumans

As a follow-up to a 2013 symposium on the origin and evolution of humans, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences held a workshop discussing the latest discoveries about humanity’s earliest ancestors — where they lived and what they may have looked like millions of years ago.

California governor uses Vatican conference to attack Trump on climate change
- Church in the US, Vatican
- Nov 5, 2017
California Governor Jerry Brown told a Vatican conference on climate change that the “Trump factor is very small. Very small indeed.” Brown said the majority of the American people support taking action to combat climate change, but warned work had to be done “to move aside the huge rock of indifference, complacency and inertia.”
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Chinese state media highlights Vatican official at organ trafficking conference in Beijing
- Global Church
- Aug 4, 2017
The Chinese state-owned Global Times, an English-language newspaper, has quoted Bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo’s positive remarks about China. Sánchez Sorondo is in Beijing, and state media in the communist country usually does not draw attention to the presence of Vatican officials when they are in the country.
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New head of Pontifical Academy of Science a natural Francis choice
- Vatican
- Jun 23, 2017
With his choice of Joachim von Braun as the new President of the Pontifical Academy of Science, Pope Francis has indicated he wants the institution to take a more active role in trying to find solutions to planetwide problems like ending poverty and saving the environment.
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