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    • Rising fish prices hurt vendors, too 

      Abello, Carolyn Jane (Panay News, January 6, 2018, on page 2-13)
      “Fish is getting costly but consumers just have to live with it,” Toding told Panay News in Hiligaynon. She estimated the increase in prices at some 50 percent and blamed the recent tropical depression “Agaton.” Inclement ...

    • Rising in trafficked fishermen alarms Tawi-Tawi authorities 

      Soriano, Jake (Malaya, April 21, 2014, on page B1-B6)
      Tawi-Tawi authorities are alarmed at the growing number of fishermen from the Visayas who end up here after being recruited by human trafficking syndicates to engage in dangerous compressor diving. The latest case involves ...

    • Rising sea levels resolve India-Bangladesh tow over tiny rock island in Bay of Bengal 

      (Manila Bulletin, March 26, 2010, on page 25)
      For nearly 30 years, India and Bangladesh have argued over control of a tiny rock island in the Bay of Bengal. Now rising sea levels have resolved the dispute for them: the island's gone. New Moore Island in the Sunderbans ...

    • Rising sea levels threaten 13.6 M Pinoys - Gore 

      Flores, Helen; Romero, Alexis (Philippine Star, March 15, 2016, on page 1-4)
      At least 13.6 million Filipinos living in coastal areas may have to relocate to higher ground due to the accelerating rise in sea levels brought by climate change. This was the warning of environmental advocate and former ...

    • Rising seas are the next crisis for the world's ports 

      Wilkinson, Francis (BusinessWorld, July 19, 2022, on page S1/7)
      The delicate choreography of ships, trains, and trucks at the world’s ports has been badly disrupted by the pandemic, and the turmoil is not likely to end soon. If a virus can have such an adverse impact on the journey of ...

    • Rising seas putting far more people at risk - study 

      Reuters (The Philippine Star, October 31, 2019, on page B6)
      Climate change will put three times more people at risk of coastal flooding by 2050 than previously thought, according to a study published on Tuesday, with swathes of Asia and cities in North America and Europe all ...

    • Rising temperatures kill thousands of fish 

      Associated Press (AP) (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 7, 2012, on page A23)
      Thousands of fish are dying in central United States as the hot, dry summer dries up rivers and causes water temperatures to climb in some spots to nearly 38 degrees Celsius. About 40,000 shovelnose sturgeon were killed ...

    • Rising to protect Philippine Rise 

      Lina, Joey D. (Manila Bulletin, May 22, 2018, on page 11)
      Many find it weird why focus was on an uncontested area instead of the West Philippine Sea where Filipinos are increasingly frustrated over the seemingly inadequate response of the Philippines to China’s relentless intrusions ...

    • Rising up for Benham Rise 

      Lina, Joey D. (Manila Bulletin, March 28, 2017, on page 11)
      That the Philippine Navy has deployed its warship BRP Ramon Alcaraz to form part of intensified patrols over the 13-million-hectare Benham Rise, an undersea region rich in biodiversity, minerals, and gas deposits off Easter ...

    • The risk of downplaying Chinese gray zone operations against the Philippines 

      De Castro, Renato (BusinessWorld, June 17, 2020, on page S1/11)
      One year ago, at midnight of June 9, 2019, a Chinese fishing vessel suddenly rammed and sank a wooden Filipino fishing boat, the F/B Gim Vir 1, which was anchored at the Reed Bank. The captain of the ill-fated Gim Vir 1 ...

    • River 'hero' 

      Associated Press (AP) (Manila Bulletin, September 4, 2012, on page 9)
      On a summer morning, marine biologist Ray Grizzle reaches into the waters of the Bronx River estuary and pulls up an oyster. The two-year-old female is "good and healthy." He grabs another handful and gets more good news. ...

    • River agency pilloried amid mass fish deaths 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Manila Standard, February 1, 2019, on page B3)
      The authority that oversees Australia’s largest river system was accused of “maladministration”, “gross negligence” and ignoring climate science Thursday, as its waterways were carpeted with hundreds of thousands of dead ...

    • River body aids Cagayan work 

      Jocson, Brenda (Manila Standard, February 26, 2019, on page B4)
      A river management organization will support and partner with the Philippine government in the restoration and protection of rivers in the Cagayan Valley region. Dr. Eva Abal, International River Foundation chief operating ...

    • River cleanup 

      Tomandao, Roy (Manila Standard, June 4, 2017, on page D1)
      The local government of Pagsanjan, Laguna, through the efforts of Mayor Maita Ejercito, staged a River Cleanup Activity in partnership with Laguna Water, DILG, DENR, PAGWAD, PGENRO, PNP Pagsanjan, MDRRMC P Pagsanjan and ...

    • River clearing goes high gear 

      (Daily Tribune, November 9, 2021, on page B11)
      Diversified Asian conglomerate San Miguel Corp.’s (SMC) river cleanup initiative at the Pasig and Tullahan rivers, both major tributaries crucial to the rehabilitation of the Manila Bay, have exceeded initial targets even ...

    • River crisis' worsens threat of water scarcity 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (BusinessWorld, October 1, 2010, on page S3/8)
      The vast majority of the world's rivers are reeling from pollution, over-development and excessive extraction, and billions of dollars of investment by rich countries to avert water stress have damaged biodiversity, a study ...

    • River deadline: It’s December 

      Araja, Rio N. (Manila Standard, August 15, 2019, on page A6)
      Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu on Wednesday ordered a December deadline for the cleanup of Navotas City’s Bangkulasi River, one of the filthy water bodies that drain into Manila Bay. “Cleaning up the Bangkulasi River, ...

    • River dredging 'still a go' despite criticisms 

      Bañaga, Dominique Gabriel (Panay News, February 13, 2021, on page 1-14)
      The planned dredging of rivers in E.B. Magalona, Negros Occidental is pushing through this month despite objections from local environmentalists. Mayor Marvin Malacon repudiated the claims of the Green Alert Environmental ...

    • River dredging smells — Teodoro 

      Alcober, Neil (Daily Tribune, February 17, 2021, on page A1-A6)
      The local government of Marikina City has warned the Department of the Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) that its project to dredge the Marikina River with the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) may ...

    • River dredging to start in January 

      Cortez, Gillian M. (BusinessWorld, December 18, 2020, on page S1/10)
      The government will start its dredging project for Cagayan River next month, which will widen the river and prevent heavy floods. Several areas of the region will be prioritized, Environment Secretary Roy A. Cimatu told a ...