Browsing Aquatic News Index by Subject "nitrates"

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    • Advisory on algal bloom in Laguna de Bay 

      Laguna Lake Development Authority (LLDA) (The Philippine Star, June 14, 2019, on page 2)
      Algal bloom is a periodic occurrence in Laguna de Bay, particularly in the Central Bay and West Bay, where Muntinlupa City is one of the lakeshore LGU's. Algae are microscopic plants in various forms, shapes and colors. ...

    • Algae scourge triggers hunt for culprit 

      Reyes, Lina Sagaral (BusinessWorld, September 20, 1999, on page 14)
      For five years now, between the months of June and August, an iridescent tangle of green algae has been showing up in the shallow waters off Macajalar Bay, 30 kilometers west of Cagayan de Oro City. At first, residents of ...

    • BAR develops new oyster culture technology 

      Valencia, Czeriza (The Philippine Star, March 3, 2013, on page B6)
      The Bureau of Agricultural Research (BAR) is developing a culture process for an oyster specie found in Surigao to increase local supply and tap its export potential to China and South Korea where there is demand. BAR and ...

    • Boracay's environmental woes 2 

      Angelo, F. Allan L. (The Daily Guardian, May 7, 2018, on page 10)
      This is the last part of our discussion of scientific studies on the environmental conditions of Boracay Island. The studies were presented in a policy forum on the rehabilitation of Boracay Island and management of coastal ...

    • Ecological time bomb ticks at Macajalar Bay ... everyone in the area points to everyone else as the culprit 

      Reyes, Lina Sagaral (BusinessWorld, September 21, 1999, on page 15)
      A palpable gloom hangs over this coastal community in Northern Mindanao, where a murky green growth in the waters has been an unwelcome annual visitor since 1994. Smelly and ever-spreading, the green blight that appears ...

    • Environmental degradation is Boracay's main problem 

      (The Manila Times, May 10, 2018, on page B6)
      Scientists and academicians gathered in Manila last month for a conference to map out a plan for Boracay's rehabilitation while tracing the resort island's woes to environmental degradation due to poor local governance.

    • Fish too suffer from stress 

      Visperas, Eva (The Philippine Star, July 23, 2015, on page B-7)
      Stress in fish is caused by different factors, particularly the sudden change of salinity at sea during incessant rains, according to Westly Rosario, chief of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR)'s National ...

    • Masinloc-Oyon bay passes water quality parameters 

      Flora, Ian Ocampo (SunStar Philippines, May 12, 2021, on page 2-15)
      The water quality of the 7,558-hectare Masinloc Oyon Bay Protected Landscape and Seascape (MOBPLS) in the towns of Masinloc and Palauig in Zambales has passed the water quality parameters of containing acceptable levels ...

    • Negros ethanol plant suspended over fishkill 

      Matus, Carmel Loise (Manila Bulletin, August 13, 2015, on page A8)
      Environment authorities suspended the operations of an ethanol plant of Universal Robina Sugar Milling Corp. (URSMC) after finding that its untreated wastewater caused fishkill that economically dislocated 200 fishing ...

    • Saving Laguna de Bay 

      Zafaralla, Macrina Tamayo (The Philippine Star, February 2, 2017, on page B7)
      The restoration of Laguna de Bay to a relatively pristine state is a major concern. This is a scientist’s account on a multidisciplinary two to three-year scientific endeavor that culminated in an Environmental Health ...

    • ‘Waste of time’: Algae cleanup in Boracay offers brief relief, scientist says 

      Cordero, Ian Paul (Panay News, April 29, 2018, on page 1-14)
      The daily removal of unwelcome green algae carpeting Boracay’s shores won’t do it, according to a marine biology expert at the University of the Philippines Visayas (UPV). “It is a waste of time. If the cause of water ...