Browsing Manila Bulletin by Subject "Climatic changes"

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    • Coast Guard to plant 60,000 mangroves 

      Philippine News Agency (PNA) (Manila Bulletin, May 17, 2010, on page 9)
      As part of its contribution to help preserve the sustainability of the marine environment, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) started its two-week long planting of mangroves in more sensitive coastlines. The planting of ...

    • Companies need to wake up to the new normal of climate change 

      Drew, Jonathan (Manila Bulletin, November 25, 2019, on page 6)
      Think wine growers in Australia, ski resort operators in Japan, or fishing and farming communities in the Philippines, whose way of life depends on environmental conditions that are already changing dramatically. In areas ...

    • Coral Bleaching 

      Associated Press (AP) (Manila Bulletin, February 5, 2015, on page B8)
      This file photo released by the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources shows coral being studied for bleaching, which is a stress response that causes corals to lose algae and color from their tissue, in Kaneohe ...

    • Coral damage 

      Coopes, Amy (Manila Bulletin, October 9, 2012, on page 11-B-11)
      Australia's Great Barrier Reef has lost more than half its coral cover in the past 27 years due to storms, predatory starfish and bleaching linked to climate change, a study found Tuesday. The research by scientists from ...

    • Coral gardening beckons ecotourists to restore reefs 

      Sheridan, Kerry (Manila Bulletin, July 9, 2015, on page B9)
      Coral reefs are fragile and in danger worldwide, but a growing movement to restore them is based on the science of breaking off pieces in order to grow more, known as coral gardening. It works like this: marine biologists ...

    • Coral reef 'seeding' in Caribbean 

      Associated Press (AP) (Manila Bulletin, February NaN, 2013, on page B-8)
      Mats of algae and seaweed have shrouded the once-thick coral in shallow reefs off Jamaica’s north coast. Warm ocean waters have bleached out the coral, and in a cascade of ecological decline, the sea urchins and plant-eating ...

    • Coral reefs face new El Niño threat 

      De Vera, Ellalyn B. (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 ...

    • Corals doomed even if global climate goals met - study 

      Hood, Marlowe (Manila Bulletin, February 4, 2022, on page 7)
      Coral reefs that anchor a quarter of marine wildlife and the livelihoods of more than half-a-billion people will most likely be wiped out even if global warming is capped within Paris climate goals, researchers said Tuesday. ...

    • Declining fish catch threatens livelihood, food supply in Negros 

      Colmo, Edith (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 pressed to develop marine conservation program ASAP 

      Casayuran, Mario B. (Manila Bulletin, September 20, 2015, on page 8)
      The Senate climate change committee has pressed the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to develop a major marine conservation program, particularly on coral restoration since only five percent of corals ...

    • East Asia nations vow to curb marine pollution 

      Yap, Tara (Manila Bulletin, November 29, 2018, on page 7)
      Countries in East Asia will bolster policies to reduce marine pollution and strengthen coastal restorations. Members of the intergovernmental Partnerships in Environmental Management for Seas of East Asia (PEMSEA) are ...

    • Engage people re West Philippine Sea dispute 

      Braid, Florangel (Manila Bulletin, May 16, 2015, on page 12)
      The most recent incident happened in Baja de Masinloc (or what is generally known as Scarborough or Panatag Shoal) where three Chinese Coast Guard ships have been deployed for the sole purpose of harassing the local ...

    • Environmental science in focus at conference 

      Marticio, Marie Tonette Grace (Manila Bulletin, June 14, 2018, on page 6)
      Dr. Ryohei Kada, professor of Agricultural Economics at Shijonawate Gakuen University, in Osaka, Japan, and one of the keynote speakers, stressed the need for a deeper understanding of the relationship between environment ...

    • Farmers'/Fishers' Month calls for collective efforts for healthy soils 

      Department of Agriculture (DA) (Manila Bulletin, May 25, 2015, on page 4)
      This month, the Department of Agriculture celebrates the contribution of the agri-fishery laborers to growth ofPhilippine agriculture and present economic status of the country. Agriculture Secretary Proceso J. Alcala will ...

    • Fish kill rooted in volcanism 

      Zafaralla, Macrina Tamayo (Manila Bulletin, July 24, 2011, on page 11)
      Taal Lake, a caldera, has an ecology that is closely linked to its cradling Taal volcano, one of the 16 volcanoes of the world that erupts every 10 years. We've been studying this lake since 1989. I propose a paradigm to ...

    • Fish, shrimps, crabs float off Cavite towns 

      Giron, Anthony (Manila Bulletin, August 21, 2010, on page 7)
      Hundreds of people feasted on fish, shrimp, and crabs that floated recently along the shores of Naic and Tanza towns in Cavite. Municipal Agricultural Technologist Victoria B.Capili said the floating sea creatures and the ...

    • Fishing rebounds in Tayabas Bay 

      Benaning, Marvyn N. (Manila Bulletin, December 9, 2011, on page 20)
      Three years after fishermen complained of dwindling catch, Tayabas Bay now hosts schools of fish through a fish cage culture project pushed by the Department of Agriculture (DA). To arrest the depletion of marketable fish, ...

    • French President visiting 'Yolanda'-hit areas ahead of crucial climate talks 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Manila Bulletin, January 25, 2015, on page 1-13)
      French President Francois Hollande will visit the typhoon-ravaged Philippines in February to build momentum for crucial climate change talks that France is hosting this year, his environment envoy said Friday. Hollande ...

    • The future of seaweed industry (Part II) 

      Favis-Villafuerte, Nelly (Manila Bulletin, May 6, 2017, on page B-3)
      Those in the seaweed industry have had their share of international intrigues when at one time in the past there were foreign groups who were peddling the idea that the Philippine carrageenan is carcinogenic. Earlier, ...

    • Global warming set to pass 2°C threshold in 2050 

      (Manila Bulletin, October 6, 2016, on page B-8)
      Earth is on track to sail past the two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) threshold for dangerous global warming by 2050, seven of the world's top climate scientists warned Thursday. Since 1990, devastating weather-related ...