Browsing Aquatic News Index by Subject "El Nino phenomena"
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Carbon from Indonesia fires exceeds US emissions: green groups
(BusinessWorld,October 23, 2015 , on page S3/4)Fires raging across huge areas of Indonesia are spewing more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere every day than the US economy, according to estimates from global environment watchdogs. For nearly two months, thousands ... -
Carrageenan research team wins award
(The Philippine Star,October 5, 2017 , on page B6)A research team from the Department of Science and Technology – Philippine Nuclear Research Institute (DOST-PNRI) that developed a highly efficient carrageenan plant growth promoter was conferred the 2017 Excellent Research ... -
Climate change takes toll in Davao Gulf: High temperature prompts fish catch decline
(Panay News,July 1, 2018 , on page 13)The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) in Region 11 raised concerns on the decreasing fish catch in the Davao Gulf. The decline in the number of catch was seen even BFAR’s implementation of the annual closed ... -
Climate change warming Asian waters, altering monsoon
(Manila Bulletin,July 7, 2016 , on page B8)The all-important monsoon forecast becomes a national priority, with more than 70 percent of India's 1.25 billion citizens engaged in agriculture and relying on weather predictions to decide when they will sow their seeds ... -
Climate-ravaged corals recover poorly-study
(Manila Bulletin,January 26, 2017 , on page B8)Paris – Coral reefs that survive rapid bleaching fuelled by global warming remain deeply damaged, with little prospect of full recovery, researchers said. Sixteen years after the 1998 El Niño ravaged coral in the Indian ... -
Climate-related death of coral around world alarms scientists
(The Philippine Star,April 14, 2016 , on page B-5)Kim Cobb, a marine scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology, expected the coral to be damaged when she plunged into the deep blue waters off Kiritimati Island, a remote atoll near the center of the Pacific Ocean. ... -
Coral reefs face new El Niño threat
(Manila Bulletin,March 12, 2010 , on page 14)An international conservation group warned yesterday that the current El Niño episode may have adverse effects on the recovering coral reefs in the country. Gregg Yan, information, education and communications officer of ... -
Coral regrowth is new crusade
(Philippine Daily Inquirer,October 5, 2016 , on page A10)Every day at 9 a.m., divers scour the waters off Mayor’s Island in the Hundred Islands National Park (HINP) in Alaminos City in Pangasinan province, to look for fragments of live coral that could still be nurtured at the ... -
Crablets: key to increase in crab output
(Manila Bulletin,November 19, 2015 , on page B-7)At the just-concluded national mud crab congress in Iloilo City, it was very clear that to increase production of crabs for export and for the local market, there should be year-round availability of crablets for grow out ... -
DA acts to ease El Niño effects
(Manila Bulletin,May 16, 2010 , on page 11)The Department of Agriculture (DA) is about to complete the implementation of mitigation measures to address the effects of El Niño event on this year’s dry cropping season and to keep up with the coming wet cropping season. ... -
DA lowers year-end growth forecast as typhoons, El Niño wipe out ₱16-B in total farm output
(Manila Bulletin,January 4, 2020 , on page 1-6)The country’s agriculture sector had so far lost as much as P16 billion worth of 2019’s total farm output to El Niño and several typhoons, with the last minute damages incurred in December alone prompting Agriculture ... -
DA releases P24.8M in funding for Davao City
(BusinessWorld,April 24, 2015 , on page S1/4)The Department of Agriculture (DA) turned over this week P24.8 million to the city of Davao for projects by the City Agriculturist Office (CAO) and the Veterinarian Office under the Grassroots Participatory Budgeting (GPB) ... -
DA to farmers: use gov't loans
(Panay News,May 20, 2017 , on page 12-17)The Department of Agriculture (DA) urged farmers and fisherfolk in Negros Island Region (NIR) to utilize various credit assistance programs like loans from the agency to achieve agricultural productivity. Joyce Wendam, ... -
DA to give loans to farmers and fishermen affected by El Niño
(Malaya,August 26, 2010 , on page B2)The Department of Agriculture said it is now ready to give loans to farmers affected by climate change following the approval by its Agricultural Credit Policy Council (ACPC) of the resolution spelling out the guidelines ... -
Davao food complex expected to boost agri share of GRDP
(BusinessWorld,May 8, 2018 , on page S1/4)The P1.02-billion Davao Food Complex project, which was approved by the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) Board at the end of April, is expected to boost the agriculture sector’s contribution to the Davao ... -
Dead fishes wash ashore in Zamboanga
(The Manila Times,May 3, 2019 , on page A7)Thousands of dead fish were washed ashore in the southern Philippine port city of Zamboanga and suspected to have died from lack or low level of dissolved oxygen. Mayor Maria Isabelle Climaco Salazar has dispatched a team ... -
Declining fish catch threatens livelihood, food supply in Negros
(Manila Bulletin,August 22, 2015 , on page 13)The amount of fish caught around the country is dwindling to dangerous levels which threatens the livelihood of 60 percent of the population dependent on fishing reports a research of Remelyn I. de Ramos of the Marine ... -
DENR task force to monitor, document coral bleaching
(The Philippine Star,September 11, 2010 , on page A-19)Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Ramon Paje has directed his agency’s Protected Areas and Wildlife Bureau to create a task force that will monitor and document coral bleaching in the country. Paje also ordered ... -
Dry spell damage now at P8-B
(The Daily Guardian,March 12, 2010 , on page 5)Damage to the farm and fisheries sectors caused by the current dry spell has reached P8 billion, a top Agriculture official said yesterday. "As of this date, the P8-billion damage is the more verified one. There are reports ... -
DSWD eyes ₱4.6-B intervention plan for El Niño-affected farmers, fisher folks
(Manila Bulletin,May 13, 2019 , on page 7)The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has proposed a P4.6-billion intervention plan to assist some 274,000 fisherfolk-families being affected adversely by the El Niño. The proposed interventions to be ...