Browsing by Author "Lopez, Tony"

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    • Extinction 

      Lopez, Tony (Manila Standard, May 22, 2019, on page A4-A5)
      About 93 percent of ocean fish is being harvested at above the level of sustainability or their being replaced by new stocks. In 2015, 33 percent of marine fish stocks were being harvested at unsustainable levels; 60 percent ...

    • High Crime in the High Seas 

      Lopez, Tony (Manila Standard, July 15, 2016, on page A11)
      At 5 p.m. on July 12, The Hague-based Permanent Court of Arbitration, at 117 years old, the oldest global institution for the settlement of international disputes, gave the Philippines its biggest legal victory ever in any ...

    • How to rehabilitate Manila Bay 

      Lopez, Tony (Manila Standard, February 8, 2019, on page A5)
      In 1975, environmental planner Architect Felino “Jun” Palafox and colleagues from the Planning and Project Development Office of the Department of Public Works, Transportation, and Communication unveiled the Manila Bay ...

    • An oil boom? 

      Lopez, Tony (Manila Standard, October 28, 2020, on page B1)
      Share prices of once-dormant listed petroleum exploration companies have doubled and even more than quadrupled in recent days, from their March 2020 lows, thanks to the so-called lifting by President Duterte of the moratorium ...

    • RP is vulnerable to climate change 

      Lopez, Tony (Manila Standard, March 9, 2018, on page A5)
      Today I adapt the article of my daughter Ivy on climate change at risk: In the last 20 years, the Philippines suffered the most catastrophic events (289). It’s the fifth most vulnerable to climate change with its recurrent ...