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DILG to convene mayors on Manila Bay rehab today
The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) will convene today 178 city and municipal mayors to discuss the rehabilitation efforts for Manila Bay. DILG Secretary Eduardo Año said the local chief executives’ ...
- February 11, 2019
Gov't inaction blamed for Subic waste dumping
A Senate committee report concluded that a contractor of the United States Navy was liable for unauthorized dumping of untreated sewage in Philippine waters and scored the inaction of relevant environment protection agencies ...
- February 16, 2013
True state of Philippine coral reefs
I attended the two -day Forum on the Coral Triangle Initiative on 14-15 August 2013 on invitation form the Protected Areas and Wildlife Bureau (PAWB) of the Department of Environment and Natural resources. In this forum, ...
- August 22, 2013
Leave PH Rise alone – Duterte
Insisting the Philippine Rise is ours, President Duterte is putting a stop to the marine research and other exploration activities by foreign groups in the area. The President has decided that only Filipinos would be allowed ...
- February 7, 2018
Mangroves vs climate change
Over 1,000 mangroves seedlings were planted at the reforestation area in barangay Parian Oeste in Buang, La Union, Wednesday afternoon, in a bid to combat the ill effects of climate change. The activity was a joint undertaking ...
- August 8, 2014
Fish kill
Fish kill has been reported in the coastal village of Hoskyn in Jordan town as the provincial government here appealed for assistance from the owner of the sunken M/V Sportivo. Local authorities believed the oil spill from ...
- January 24, 2014
Clean river in 7 years
Much has been said and done about infamous deterioration of the 27-kilometer Pasig River - from when 84-year-old Purificacion "Nanay Puring" Malvas Punzalan could still drink clean, clear water from it in the 1940s to the ...
- September 5, 2012
Boracay: A model of Clean Water
It is an amazing story worthy to be told again and again. Boracay is one of the world's most beautiful islands, until it was rocked with the controversy of being tagged a "cesspool" by no less than the country's president. ...
- April 22, 2019
US pays P87 M for Tubbataha damage
The Philippine government has received P87 million, or $1.97 million, from the United States for the damage caused by the grounding of the minesweeper USS Guardian in Palawan’s Tubbataha Reef two years ago. The Department ...
- February 19, 2015
Gov't to determine fines for oil spill
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources will issue a notice of violation of the Philippine Clean Water Act to the company operating the power barge that exploded and spilled oil off the coast of Iloilo City on ...
- July 6, 2020