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Radical goals for sustainable development
Let us imagine for a moment that we could change the world according to our wishes. Dramatic economic inequality gives way to social and political inclusion. Universal human rights become a reality. We end deforestation ...
- January 5, 2015
Yolanda's unlikely heroes
Before this Leyte provincial capital and regional center of Eastern Visayas was battered by Supertyphoon “Yolanda” (international name: Haiyan) seven years ago, many residents had been treating their mangrove forests as ...
- November 15, 2020
Reforestation: not quantity but quality of trees
The Jan. 6 editorial (“Genuine growth”) was right on target in highlighting the urgency of reforestation efforts and the establishment of the National Greening Program (by Executive Order No. 23), under which millions of ...
- February 14, 2013
Save Manila Bay
As a young boy, small pail in hand, I would gather mussels, shore crabs (which I knew as talangka), and fish along the breakwall of Manila Bay on Roxas Boulevard, for my family’s meal. I imagined myself like the fishermen ...
- July 18, 2018
Cavite gov downplays diesel spill destruction
A diesel oil spill on Manila Bay that raises potential environmental and health hazards and threatens to ruin the capital’s vital fishing industry has “95-percent” evaporated, leaving only “a thin film” of fuel on the ...
- August 10, 2013
Pope cites Pinoy bishops in encyclical on climate
Pope Francis cited Filipino bishops in his encyclical on the environment “Laudato Si, Mi Signore” (Praise be to You, My Lord). “Who turned the wonderworld of the seas into underwater cemeteries bereft of color and life?” ...
- June 21, 2015
Marinduque town fears lingering mine effects
The sight bluish green water flowing through the Boac River in Marinduque province has raised suspicions of a high level of acid seeping from mine wastes left in the defunct Marcopper mining site. But Roland de Jesus, ...
- September 2, 2016
Beach clearing starts in Siargao: DENR, DILG vow to save surf spot from environmental woes suffered by Boracay
The government has started a crackdown on illegal structures on the beaches of Siargao Island, a booming tourist destination in Surigao del Norte province, taking off from lessons in the environmental rehabilitation of ...
- August 23, 2019
Baguio rivers remain heavily polluted–DENR
Two main rivers in the summer capital remain heavily polluted due in part to unregulated hog raising operations and sludge coming from Baguio’s public market and slaughterhouse, the Department of Environment and Natural ...
- June 29, 2019
3 fast food restos found polluting Mindoro river
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) issued a cease and desist order against three fast food restaurants here—the first in a series of government action against establishments polluting the Calapan ...
- March 9, 2019