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DENR rejects Coron, Palawan underwater theme park project
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) yesterday said it will not allow the establishment of the 400-hectare underwater resort and theme park being proposed by an American children’s television network ...
- January 13, 2017
Cleaning up Metro Manila, one tributary at a time
The Pasig and its tributaries as well as Manila Bay remain polluted to this day. Largely uncoordinated efforts by various local governments and national agencies have not succeeded in cleaning it all up. But a few year, ...
- June 30, 2017
Saving our seas: the world’s last ecological frontier faces the threat of commercialization
Early this year, an international media group together with a resort developer announced that it will open an underwater resort just off the coast of Palawan. The 400-hectare master-planned project will be developed in the ...
- February 5, 2017
Plants to clean coastlines
The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) will embark on a pilot project that aims to sanitize, through natural biological techniques, the residential areas along the city's coasts. A Dutch scientist, who has worked ...
- February 12, 2017
Thailand tries to tackle mass of ocean trash
Thai authorities are trying to clean up a massive, one-kilometer long tangle of trash, officials said Friday, calling it the largest garbage heap to float through the kingdom's waters. The mass of debris was estimated to ...
- February 16, 2017
Smart, Ericsson saves mangroves
PLDT wireless subsidiary Smart Communications and Ericsson recently formalized an agreement to develop an Internet of Things (IoT) solution to help in the protection and conservation of mangroves in the Philippines. Smart ...
- August 9, 2017
Zambo mayor slams Navy over coral reef damage
An infuriated Mayor Maria Isabelle Climaco sought sanctions against two Philippine Navy personnel and called the attention of regional Navy officials after a patrol ship damaged protected coral reefs off Sta. Cruz Island ...
- May 7, 2017
Plastic Nation
The Philippines is the third-worst polluter into the world’s oceans according to Greenpeace. This is due to a lack of awareness, education, and just plain willful ignorance. Filipinos are polluting the seas with single use ...
- November 11, 2017
Gov’t, LGUs take tougher stance against Tañon Strait illegal fishers
Concerned government agencies and local government units (LGUs) will conduct more sea patrols and file cases against illegal and commercial fishers in Tañon Strait, the country’s largest marine protected area between Cebu ...
- January 26, 2017
Ocean's deepest part filled with toxic pollutants,study reveals
“Extraordinary levels” of pollution have been found in the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the Earth’s oceans. Pollutants from the 1970s have accumulated among the crustaceans that live there, contaminating life 11,000 ...
- February 16, 2017