Browsing by Subject "microorganisms"

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    • Antarctica's sea ice shrinks for the second straight year 

      (Manila Standard, March 3, 2018, on page B3)
      Sea ice cover in Antarctica has dropped to its second-lowest on record, Australian authorities said Friday (Mar 2), adding that it was not yet clear what was driving the reduction after several years of record-highs. The ...

    • Biokubo: The search for an alternative feedstock for biodiesel 

      Razon, Luis F. (The Philippine Star, December 22, 2011, on page B-5)
      Studies have shown that the biodiesel process utilizing waste cooking oils had a better rate of return than a process which used virgin oil, although all of the processes in their papers had negative rates of return. There ...

    • Copra meal is a vital feed source 

      Yap, Julio Jr. (Panay News, June 21, 2017, on page 10)
      Copra meal is a vital feed source in the Philippines. It is primarily used in the manufacture of feed for animals. Under the project, several feeding trials were conducted on shrimp (Penaeus vannamei) in low and high density ...

    • Dakasi reopens but … 

      Mateo, Wenceslao E. Jr. (The Daily Guardian, November 21, 2013, on page 1-7)
      The Iloilo City government has allowed Dakasi Milk Tea House at Smallville Complex in Mandurriao to re-open but with strict conditions. City Hall required the company to submit milk tea products it intends to sell to ...

    • DOH raises red tide alert in 4 provinces 

      Uy, Jocelyn (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 1, 2015, on page A7)
      The Department of Health (DOH) has advised the public to skip shellfish and shrimp fry harvested from five coastal areas in the Visayas and Mindanao due to the continued presence of the poisonous red tide toxin. The health ...

    • Iloilo researchers see potential for drug development; Marine bacteria in Tubbataha show anti-cancer properties 

      Subingsubing, Krixia (Panay News, November 28, 2023, on page 2)
      For the last five years, scientists from the University of San Agustin (USA) in Iloilo province have been combing the country’s oceans for microorganisms that can cure intractable diseases. This year, they finally discovered ...

    • PCAARRD, SLSU research microorganism role in carbon sequestration capacity of mangroves 

      Gunio, Butch (Manila Standard, August 26, 2023, on page C3)
      The Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development of the Department of Science and Technology (PCAARRD) and Southern Leyte State University (SLSU) will conduct a two-year research ...

    • Red tide alert for Samar bay 

      Marticio, Marie Tonette Grace (Manila Bulletin, August 8, 2018, on page 6)
      Villareal Bay in this province has been found to be contaminated with red tide, according to the regional Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR). Laboratory examination by the Regional Fisheries Laboratory in ...

    • Red tide alert up in Visayas 

      (Manila Standard, December 22, 2016, on page A5)
      In its latest shellfish bulletin dated December 20, BFAR said the paralytic shellfish poison can still be found in Irong-Irong and Cambatutay Bays in Western Samar, Matarinao Bay in Eastern Samar, Leyte, Naval in Biliran ...

    • Red tide organisms find new host shells 

      Dematera, Cet (The Philippine Star, August 23, 2010, on page A-26)
      A marine biologist closely monitoring Sorsogon Bay in Bicol yesterday confirmed that red tide microorganisms previously found only in green mussels (tahong) have found a new host in pen shells (baloko), which, for the first ...

    • Saving turtles by saving their nesting sites 

      Mascariñas, Erwin (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 5, 2018, on page A6)
      One of the most fascinating facts about sea turtles is that they have unusually sharp memories, according to experts. So they would return again and again to the place where turtles hundreds of years before them hatched ...

    • SEAFDEC develops early warning system for pollution in mariculture parks 

      (The News Today, September 30, 2008, on page C2)
      The Aquaculture Department (AQD) of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) is developing an early warning system to guard against the negative impacts of fish cages in mariculture parks. This is certainly ...

    • Seafdec develops early warning system vs pollution in mariculture parks 

      (The Daily Guardian, September 29, 2008, on page 3-6)
      The Aquaculture Department (AQD) of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) is developing an early warning system to guard against the negative impacts of fish cages in mariculture parks. This is certainly ...

    • Shellfish alert raised in Pangasinan town 

      Sotelo, Yolanda (Philippine Daily Inquirer, April 27, 2010, on page A18)
      The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) has asked consumers to stop buying and eating shellfish harvested from the Wawa River in Bani town, after tests showed that these were positive for harmful microorganisms. ...

    • Shellfish ban enforced in Leyte's Carigara Bay 

      Crisostomo, Sheila (The Philippine Star, August 28, 2010, on page A-27)
      The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) has imposed a shellfish ban in Leyte's Carigara Bay after finding red tide microorganisms there. In an advisory submitted to the Department of Health, BFAR director ...

    • USA prof, all-Filipino team of scientists sent to explore Philippine Rise 

      PN (Panay News, May 28, 2018, on page B3)
      Professor Doralyn Dalisay, Ph. D. of the University of san Austin- College of Health and Allied Medical professions is one of the 50 all-Filipino teams of scientists seen off by Pres. Rodrigo R. Duterte aboard the BRP Davao ...