From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine , an interview by host Steve Curwood with Tony Juniper, the chairman of Natural England, a government conservation agency.

The serene music of the choirs of Windsor Castle, the Sistine Chapel and children from the choir of Saint James Chapel, floated up to the famous ceiling painted by Michelangelo during a historic gathering in October.

It was part of the very first public prayer bringing together King Charles III, supreme governor of the Anglican Church, and Pope Leo XIV, supreme pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, ending five centuries of separation. This act of unity by these two faith leaders, who are also sovereign heads of state, was embedded in their shared concern for the environment,

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