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DOH raises red tide alert in 4 provinces
The Department of Health (DOH) has advised the public to skip shellfish and shrimp fry harvested from five coastal areas in the Visayas and Mindanao due to the continued presence of the poisonous red tide toxin. The health ...
- August 1, 2015
Apo Island: Diver's haven
Jack Baller, a tourist and diving instructor from Miami, Florida, was in awe of what he saw during a recent dive off Apo Island. “You won’t see any of these in Miami. [What you have here is] very clean. No trash at all ...
- September 4, 2022
Alcohol plant faces fines for fish kill
An alcohol fermenting plant faces penalties following the spill of 46,000 liters of molasses that was initially ruled as the cause of the fish kill downstream of the Pampanga River on Sept. 20. Lormelyn Claudio, director ...
- October 7, 2017
US-Asean agri-food trade: who is faring better?
The United States is one of the largest trade partners of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. In agri-food products, the total two-way trade in 2013 was $29 billion: $10.2 billion of US exports and $18.8 billion ...
- January 5, 2015
Bolinao villagers are fierce protectors of mangrove forests
Romula Caranza maintains a garden on the shores of Santiago Island in this northwestern town in Pangasinan province. Daily, she painstakingly checks her plants, removing barnacles, oysters and other seashells attached to ...
- April 15, 2014
Fish growers ask gov't: 'Reconsider' import plan: Aquaculture industry may suffer same fate as rice producers, warns group
Fish growers in Taal Lake in Batangas province have opposed the government’s plan to import fish, saying this could only stall the industry’s recovery from damage wrought by Taal Volcano’s eruption and the low market demand ...
- October 12, 2020
Chinese ship returns to waters off Vietnam
A Chinese ship embroiled in a standoff with Vietnamese vessels last year has returned to waters near Vietnam as the United States accused China of pushing its presence in the South China Sea while other claimants are ...
- April 15, 2020
Man's ruin pushes 7,000 species to the brink
Mankind’s destruction of nature is driving species to the brink of extinction at an “unprecedented” rate, the leading wildlife conservation body warned on Thursday as it added more than 7,000 animals, fish and plants to ...
- July 20, 2019
Arctic Sea ice shrinks to second lowest on record
Warming in the Arctic shrank the ice covering the polar ocean this year to its second-lowest extent in four decades, scientists said Monday, yet another sign of how climate change is rapidly transforming the region. ...
- September 23, 2020
Our big surprise in Tubbataha-diving with Destiny
It was a quintessential Tubbataha dive—volatile currents, tons of fish, and a big surprise. We were at Seafan Alley on Tubbataha’s North Atoll, making our way back to the shallows after some 40 minutes of spotting slender ...
- July 2, 2016