Browsing The Daily Guardian by Subject "Man-induced effects"

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    • About the Boracay closure 

      Larawan, Lucell (The Daily Guardian, April 30, 2018, on page 7)
      The famous island, one of the world’s top destinations for relaxation, has just closed for environmental issues that president Duterte highlighted a while ago. The coliform level in one of its barangays has reached an ...

    • Communities pollute coastal waters 

      Santiagudo, Emme Rose (The Daily Guardian, April 4, 2019, on page 1-14)
      An estimated 17, 991 kilos of plastic and residual wastes were collected during the city government’s “One Time Big Time” coastal cleanup on March 30, 2019, based on a report of City Environmental and Natural Resources ...

    • DENR-6 celebrate World Wetlands Day 

      Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)-Region VI (The Daily Guardian, February 7, 2019, on page 14-15)
      In celebration of World Wetlands Day, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) conducted a Bird Watching Activity at Brgy. Tubigan, Zarraga. The Department wants to impart this knowledge especially among ...

    • DENR-6 chief calls for ban on plastic products 

      (The Daily Guardian, July 21, 2018, on page 13-14)
      Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)-6 Regional Director Jim O. Sampulna asked the public to avoid using plastic products, especially single-use plastic. For the record, there are about 8 million metric ...

    • Endangered green sea turtle returns home 

      Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)-Region VI; Community Environment and Natural Resources (The Daily Guardian, February 7, 2019, on page 13)
      After a six-month rehabilitation, a green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) was released back to its habitat through the efforts of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) in close coordination with the Wildlife ...

    • [ Green algae ] 

      Conserva, Louine Hope (The Daily Guardian, May 1, 2018, on page 3)
      The growth of green algae is being blamed on the sewerage problems and pollutions caused by illegal establishments in Boracay.

    • Healing the water shed 

      Mana-ay, Edgar (The Daily Guardian, April 22, 2015, on page 4-5)
      The metro Iloilo water district (MIWD) board is correct in focusing it's concern on the watershed as the main source of its potable water supply. The first thing fisherman engineering student is taught is to define understand ...

    • Households pollute Iloilo River, creeks 

      Conserva, Louine Hope (The Daily Guardian, March 4, 2014, on page 1-7)
      The Iloilo City Environment and National Resources Office (City ENRO) said households are to be blamed for the pollution of the Iloilo River and two creeks. Engr. Noel Hechanova, City ENRO chief, said unclean and mismanaged ...

    • Iloilo River still dirty 

      Angelo, Francis Allan L. (The Daily Guardian, March 11, 2013, on page 1-7)
      June Falcis, 16, of Iloilo City Proper and his friends love to plunge into the Iloilo River to cool off the summer heat which is setting in this month. The group said they don’t mind the sometimes murky and smelly water ...

    • Lessons from the ongoing Manila Bay rehab 

      Mana-ay, Edgar (The Daily Guardian, February 26, 2019, on page 4)
      For almost 100 years, Manila Bay has been abused, misused, and mistreated by Filipinos living around the bay, from Cavite to Manila to Bulacan. Just like our Iloilo Rivers and seas, it has been a symbol of environmental ...

    • Protecting the environment 

      Engalgado, Mila P. (The Daily Guardian, January 16, 2015, on page B6-B7)
      Human activities slowly destroy the Earth. Threats of global warming and climate change have been more alarming that scientists, governments, industrial groups and even the education sector have stepped up efforts to address ...

    • R.I.V.E.R.S for Life Award to raise importance of rivers in PHL 

      Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)-Region VI (The Daily Guardian, October 6, 2018, on page 13)
      RIVERS are the lifeblood of the Earth and of the human civilization. They act as drainage channels of surface waters and carry water and nutrients through great distances. Rivers serve as habitat and provide food to many ...

    • Task force similar to Boracay eyed in Manila Bay rehab 

      ABS-CBN News (The Daily Guardian, January 11, 2019, on page 12)
      Government officials tasked to rehabilitate Manila Bay will create an inter-agency task force similar to what was created for the massive cleanup of Boracay, Interior and Local Government Secretary Eduardo Año said Tuesday. ...

    • The UN climate change approach 

      Mana-ay, Edgar (The Daily Guardian, January 14, 2019, on page 4)
      Many coral reefs “bleach” (lose the algae that live in symbiotic partnership with them) when sea temperature rise. For the ignorant, this is a dying episode because of the change in color, which is far from the truth. The ...