Browsing by Subject "global warming"
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Climate change blamed for dwindling number of waterbirds on Maguindanao lake
(Philippine Daily Inquirer,February 1, 2020 , on page A10)Environment officials blamed climate change and global warming for the marked decrease in the number of waterbirds feeding on Lake Buluan, the marshland and inland waters of Sultan Kudarat. Dr. Sabdullah Abubacar, regional ... -
'Climate change may threaten $2.5 trillion in financial assets'
(Panay News,April 7, 2016 , on page C5)Climate change can destroy assets directly through sea-level rise for example, by depreciating their value, or by disrupting economic activities lower down the chain through drought or freak storms. A lot of research has ... -
Climate change pushing killer whales to go north
(Manila Standard,January 29, 2019 , on page B3)Paying no attention to nearby divers, a killer whale and her calf hunting for food frolic in a snowy Norwegian fjord. Their favorite meal, herring, abound, but climate change means both predator and prey must increasingly ... -
Climate change signals Earth in danger zone
(Philippine Daily Inquirer,January 17, 2015 , on page A23)Climate change and high rates of extinctions of animals and plants are pushing the Earth into a danger zone for humanity, a scientific report card about mankind’s impact on nature said on Thursday. An international team ... -
Climate change threatens fish supply
(Malaya,April 25, 2017 , on page A1-A4)Global warming means less fish on the table. That’s reason for concern to a country that consumes a lot more fish than the global average of 15 kilograms annually. Already, Philippine coral reefs are degraded, the seed ... -
Climate change threatens local fish species
(The Manila Times,December 21, 2022 , on page A8)While there is no sardine-supply shortage yet, the government and Oceana Philippines are moving to protect and conserve sardines to ensure that they will not go extinct, an official of the Department of Agriculture-Bureau ... -
Climate change threatens RP aquaculture
(Philippine Daily Inquirer,August 27, 2007 , on page B8)If Climate Change continues, the country's fisheries and aquaculture sector would soon to be sailing into rough seas, said the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center. Dr. Angel Alcala and Dr. Joebert Toledo painted ... -
Climate change to batter US economy-report
(Manila Bulletin,November 26, 2018 , on page 6-6)Climate change will cost the US economy hundreds of billions of dollars by the end of the century, hitting everything from health to infrastructure, according to a government report issued on Friday that the White House ... -
Climate change warming Asian waters, altering monsoon
(Manila Bulletin,July 7, 2016 , on page B8)The all-important monsoon forecast becomes a national priority, with more than 70 percent of India's 1.25 billion citizens engaged in agriculture and relying on weather predictions to decide when they will sow their seeds ... -
Climate debate takes global pulse before summit
(Philippine Daily Inquirer,June 8, 2015 , on page A1-A21)From the typhoon-ravaged Philippines to the Arizona desert, thousands of people began gathering Saturday, June 6 in small groups in 79 countries for what was touted as the biggest public debate on climate change. Results ... -
Climate scientist debunks ‘sea level rise alarm,’ UN climate agenda crumbling
(The Manila Times,December 14, 2018 , on page A4)Many Filipinos have bought the climate change (global warming) dogma for two key reasons: First, they swallowed the claim of sea level rise, and they got scared by the thought that the Philippines as a Pacific island nation ... -
Climate-ravaged corals recover poorly-study
(Manila Bulletin,January 26, 2017 , on page B8)Paris – Coral reefs that survive rapid bleaching fuelled by global warming remain deeply damaged, with little prospect of full recovery, researchers said. Sixteen years after the 1998 El Niño ravaged coral in the Indian ... -
Colombia's island fishermen dive into battle to protect coral reefs
(Malaya,November 13, 2018 , on page B5)For nearly three decades, Javier Barker has fished in the Caribbean Sea surrounding the Colombian island of San Andres - but until recently he knew little about the importance of coral reefs that fish depend on to survive. ... -
Companies need to wake up to the new normal of climate change
(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 ... -
Conserving marine resources
(Panay News,October 17, 2017 , on page 8)The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources in Region 6 signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with two local government units in northern Iloilo (Carles and Concepcion) and other enforcement agencies to strengthen ... -
Coral damage
(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 regrowth is new crusade
(Philippine Daily Inquirer,October 5, 2016 , on page A10)Every day at 9 a.m., divers scour the waters off Mayor’s Island in the Hundred Islands National Park (HINP) in Alaminos City in Pangasinan province, to look for fragments of live coral that could still be nurtured at the ... -
Corals doomed even if global climate goals met - study
(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. ... -
'Dead zone' in Arabian Sea raises climate change fears
(BusinessWorld,July 18, 2018 , on page S2/8)In the waters of the Arabian Sea, a vast “dead zone” the size of Scotland is expanding and scientists say climate change may be to blame. In his lab in Abu Dhabi, Zouhair Lachkar is laboring over a colorful computer model ... -
DENR creates task force to monitor coral bleaching
(Malaya,September 13, 2010 , on page B2)Environment Secretary Ramon Paje has ordered the Protected Areas and Wildlife Bureau (PAWB) to create a task force that will monitor and document coral bleaching in the country. Paje also directed his regional officials ...