Browsing by Author "Mercene, Floro"

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    • Giant squid (2) 

      Mercene, Floro (Tempo, October 29, 2012, on page 7)
      Recent studies showed that giant squid feed on deep-sea fish, shrimps and other squid species. The adult giant squid's only known predators are sperm whales. Scientists have tried to observe sperm whales to study giant ...

    • The ocean is dying (1) 

      Mercene, Floro (Manila Bulletin, May 22, 2017, on page 14)
      The alarming rise in the price of fish is linked to the alarming rise of ocean temperature, which killed the coral reefs in our oceans. Remove the corrals and you remove the marine creatures’ source of food, habitat, and ...

    • The ocean is dying (2) 

      Mercene, Floro (Manila Bulletin, May 26, 2017, on page 12)
      There were many factors that caused the death of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) but among them were drilling for oil and mining and the death blow was global warming. The uncontrolled use of fossil fuels such as carbon, oil, ...

    • Shrimp business 

      Mercene, Floro (Manila Bulletin, September 13, 2013, on page 11-12)
      Ten years ago, the Philippines used to be the one of the biggest shrimp producers- No. 3- in the world and ten years before that, the shrimp production had emerged as the country's "sunshine industry". Local shrimp production ...

    • South China Sea arms race (1) 

      Mercene, Floro (Manila Bulletin, September 25, 2015, on page 11)
      If there's anybody to blame for a militarily aggressive Japan, it is nobody else but China. For the last 70 years, Japan had remained focused on protecting itself. When China unilaterally claimed the entire South China ...

    • Why China needs Benham Rise (1) 

      Mercene, Floro (Manila Bulletin, March 17, 2017, on page 15)
      China appears interested in Benham Rise, even if the United Nations has awarded the 13-million-hectare undersea region as part of our continental shelf and exclusive economic zone (EEZ). The United Nations Convention on ...

    • Why China needs Benham Rise (2) 

      Mercene, Floro (Manila Bulletin, March 20, 2017, on page 13)
      Even when the International Tribunal at the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague ruled its SCS historic claim as illegal, China refused to acknowledge the ruling. Party-List Congressman Francisco Ashley Acedillo ...