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RP scientists note massive bleaching of coral reefs
For several months now, marine scientists and divers have been witnessing and recording the massive bleaching of coral reefs all over the country, which is being caused by warmer-than-normal ocean water temperatures. In ...
- September 6, 2010
Island beaches shut down to save fragile ecosystems
Not only Boracay Island but also Maya Bay will be off limits to visitors this year as officials seek to protect ecosystems crumbling from warming seas and unchecked sprawl, despite the risk to tourism revenues and tens of ...
- March 29, 2018
Manila Bay rehab: raps eyed vs uncooperative lgus
An interagency task force is set to file charges against local officials who have not been cooperating with government efforts to clean up Manila Bay. “[The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG)] is now ...
- December 22, 2018
Who manipulated fishermen? Palace points to Diokno, IBP
Presidential spokesperson Salvador Panelo on Thursday said human rights lawyer Jose Manuel “Chel” Diokno and the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) manipulated a group of fishermen into petitioning for an environmental ...
- July 12, 2019
What my Boracay is like now-like a bipolar existence
Since the days leading to the government’s closure on April 26, I’ve been trying to share glimpses of what is most often construed as a charmed life sprinkled with magic dust—but peppered with concrete rubble dust. Thus ...
- July 8, 2018
Trump Jr. tweets on Tubbataha rile PH netizens
The remarks of American businessman Donald Trump Jr. criticizing a US Navy plan to dismantle its minesweeper that is stuck at the Tubbataha Reefs in the Sulu Sea has sparked outrage among netizens and prompted a militant ...
- February 1, 2013
Gov't inaction blamed for Subic waste dumping
A Senate committee report concluded that a contractor of the United States Navy was liable for unauthorized dumping of untreated sewage in Philippine waters and scored the inaction of relevant environment protection agencies ...
- February 16, 2013
FirstGen bankrolls Batangas marine ecosystem project
Rey Manalo is an active and vocal advocate of the Bantay Dagat (Sea Patrol) program in Mabini, Batangas. Quite a departure from his younger days when Manalo was a menace to the marine ecosystem of Batangas, being a muro-ami ...
- August 17, 2015
'Laboracay' no more
A proclamation signed by President Duterte on Thursday, April 26, placed three barangays in Boracay Island under a state of calamity, thus justifying the six-month closure of this world famous tourist hotspot. Specifically, ...
- April 28, 2018
Despite Boracay reopening, many workers have not returned
More than four months after Boracay Island reopened to tourists, many workers displaced by the closure have not been able to return to work. Most of those who left the island to seek work elsewhere have not returned even ...
- March 18, 2019