Environment Justice

2. the ongoing decrease in the pH of the Earth's oceans, caused by the uptake of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
5. the action of clearing a wide area of trees
8. to use up a resource.
9. patron saint of animals and ecology
10. the world’s largest tropical rainforest, famed for its biodiversity, "the lungs of the earth"
11. pope francis

1. author of "The Garden of God: Toward a Human Ecology"; a retired prelate of the Catholic Church who served as head of the Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 2005 until his resignation in 2013
3. the act, process or instance of investing with a divine character
4. the process by which fertile land becomes desert, typically as a result of drought, deforestation, or inappropriate agriculture
6. sister who defended the amazon rainforest before she was murdered
7. to combine a number of different pieces into a whole