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La Union board declares calamity state to deal with oil spill
The provincial board of La Union has declared the province under a state of calamity to enable towns affected by the oil spill supposedly from a sunken vessel or another ship to tap their calamity funds for cleanup operations. ...
- March 2, 2013
'Butanding' lifts town's tourism industry
Next to the Hundred Islands National Park in Alaminos City, this coastal town is emerging as Pangasinan province’s new ecotourism destination due to the presence of whale sharks near its shorelines. The whale sharks, locally ...
- August 9, 2013
Helping coral reefs with beads of faith
In what could be the first of its kind in the world, a 65-meter-long artificial reef shaped like a rosary was dropped into the Albay Gulf off the coastal town of Sto. Domingo in Albay. The structure symbolizes the “Our ...
- August 8, 2013
Turtle haven in Mati under threat
The Amihan Boys are considered the “guardians of Dahican.” The group of 25 boys and young men, all residents of the village of Dahican, started as mere skim boarding enthusiasts nine years ago. Since then, they have become ...
- June 30, 2013
Lakeside property regards environment as ‘first customer’
The isolated town of Buhi in Camarines Sur is home to the world’s smallest fish, the Mistichthys luzonensis, known among the natives as sinarapan. But Buhi, and its picturesque lake where the fish live, is also home to the ...
- June 29, 2013
'Lolong' may have died of pneumonia, says DENR chief
"Lolong," the world's largest captive crocodile whose sudden death stunned the public earlier this month, may have died of pneumonia, initial findings from the necropsy showed. Environment Secretary Ramon Paje said the ...
- February 22, 2013
Where there are crocs, there will always be fish
"They look like dinosaurs!" I screamed, gaping at live crocodiles for the first time with my brother, Jaypee. This was Manila Zoo in the 1900s and to pint-sized kids, 14-foot crocodiles seemed giant, ancient and utterly ...
- February 17, 2013
Unesco asked to help assess damage to reef
An official of the Climate Change Commission on Saturday asked the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) to assess the damage wrought on the Tubbataha Reefs by the USS Guardian which ran ...
- February 3, 2013
Reef's real value is priceless
National outrage followed on the heels of the grounding of a US Navy ship in the south atoll of the Tubbataha Reef National Park (TRNP), off the coast of Puerto Princesa in Palawan. The TRNP is a protected area under the ...
- March 4, 2013