Browsing by Subject "Algae"
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Climate-related death of coral around world alarms scientists
(The Philippine Star,April 14, 2016 , on page B-5)Kim Cobb, a marine scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology, expected the coral to be damaged when she plunged into the deep blue waters off Kiritimati Island, a remote atoll near the center of the Pacific Ocean. ... -
Coliform caused Boracay corals' mass die-off?
(Panay News,March 6, 2015 , on page 5)A cooperative suspected that the high coliform level in the waters in this island resort was causing mass coral die-off. A member of the Sankalikasan Producers Cooperative, Jose Rodriguez, said they have monitored two usual ... -
Coral reefs face new El Niño threat
(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 ... -
Cultured ‘green food’ developed for fish growers
(The Manila Times,August 2, 2018 , on page B6)Although defatted soybean meal is the most common, low-cost food for fish, it is not the natural diet for them because it lacks key nutritional compounds. Besides plankton, the natural food for fish is algae that an ongoing ... -
Dagupan’s ‘Bangus King’ leads way for others
(Philippine Daily Inquirer,February 10, 2013 , on page A12)If there is someone who deserves to be called “Bangus King” here, it is Eduardo Maramba, who belongs to four generations of milkfish growers. “My great grandfather, Franciso, my grandfather, Cipriano, and my father, Rufino, ... -
Diverse marine life found in 2016 Benham Rise expedition
(Manila Standard,June 9, 2016 , on page C1)Since the United Nations' Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf recognized Benham Rise as the Philippines's newest territory in 2012, our country's territory has increased to 43 million hectares from 30 million ... -
Dust used to sterilize fishponds
(Manila Bulletin,January 23, 2014 , on page B-8)The use of chemicals like cyanide in the preparation and sterilization of fishponds nationwide post a threat to both the environment and millions of fish consumers. The promotion of an alternative that is both effective ... -
Engineer puts up high-tech Spirulina farm
(Manila Bulletin,January 4, 2018 , on page B-7)All the requirements that are needed to succeed in growing the alga have been studied by Pol, and so successful is he that even the researchers from UP Los Baños and La Salle University, have admired his success in producing ... -
Exxon allots billions to turn algae into fuel
(Manila Standard,November 5, 2017 , on page B2)One of the world's biggest oil companies is pumping more than $1 billion a year into alternative forms of energy from algae engineered to bloom into biofuels and cells that turn emissions into electricity. The funds from ... -
Feed made from microalgae to raise aquaculture production
(Manila Bulletin,January 7, 2014 , on page B-2)A feed for aquaculture, microalgae, is eyed as both a highly nutritional and environment-friendly feed that can enhance aquaculture production, a sector that accounts for some ₱20 billion in Philippines' gross value ... -
First algae farm to be built in Muntinlupa
(The Philippine Star,July 25, 2019 , on page B4)A farm focusing on research on the commercial, scientific and environmental use of green algae will soon be built in Muntinlupa City, with the help of a grant won by teacher-researchers. Officials of the Muntinlupa National ... -
The future of seaweed industry (Part II)
(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, ... -
Great barrier reef may never recover from bleaching- study
(The Manila Times,March 17, 2017 , on page B6)Australia’s Great Barrier Reef may never recover from last year’s warming-driven coral bleaching, said a study Wednesday that called for urgent action in the face of ineffective conservation efforts. Record-high temperatures ... -
[ Green algae ]
(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. -
Green algae makes Boracay sand white?
(Panay News,March 9, 2022 , on page 7)There is a prevailing belief in Boracay that green algae makes the island's sand white or turn to white sand itself. Tarso! This is not true. Algae have nothing to do with sand. -
Guimaras fears algal bloom
(The Daily Guardian,January 28, 2014 , on page 1-10)The Guimaras provincial government demanded the owner of the sunken ship which triggered another oil spill in the island-province to immediately refloat the vessel. Engr. Raymund Moderes, head of the Guimaras Task Force ... -
Healers of Tubbataha
(The Philippine Star,June 8, 2013 , on page 2)Convict Surgeonfish swim around Tubbataha Reef's South Atoll, which was damaged by ship grounding this year. In celebration of World Oceans Day today, the Worlds Wide Fund for Nature-Philippines released this photo to show ... -
Heatwaves 'cook' Great Barrier Reef corals
(Panay News,April 20, 2018 , on page 12)Prolonged ocean warming events, known as marine heatwaves, take a significant toll on the complex ecosystem of the Great Barrier Reef. This occurs when the stress of elevated temperatures causes a breakdown of the coral's ... -
Hmmm, there's magic in Boracay
(Panay News,May 2, 2018 , on page 8)It's the day after Labor Day, call it a hangover, usually, there’s still a lot of stories in the newspapers about the “working class hero”, the poor, downtrodden and exploited salaried laborer or to use the favorite term ... -
Ice turns pink in Italy's Alps, sparks algae probe
(Panay News,July 7, 2020 , on page 16)Italian scientists are investigating the mysterious appearance of pink glacial ice in the Alps, caused by algae that accelerate the effects of climate change. There is debate about where the algae come from, but Biagio Di ...