A school module published in 2009 — the Mangrove Resource and Instruction for Elementary Grades — already differentiated storm surges from tsunamis. Funded by P1 million from my Pew Fellowship grant to cover module writing, ...

Whereas, the alarming rate of the sea cucumber exploitation for the meat trade, the recent discovery of their potential medical and pharmaceutical applications and the recognition of their ecological importance became ...

The thousands of dead fish found floating in the Manila Bay over the weekend likely came from fish cages in Laguna de Bay, which overflowed because of heavy rains brought by tropical storm Gorio, the Bureau of Fisheries ...

An international conservationist group has committed $1.8 million to save the endangered eel species of Cagayan province from extinction. The Philippine Information Agency regional office in Tuguegarao City said the funds, ...

Beware of shellfish taken from Matarinao Bay in Eastern Samar. This, after the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) found red tide microorganisms in the bay, prompting a ban on the harvesting and selling of ...

Government workers and civilian volunteers joined hands to set free last Thursday a juvenile whale shark, locally known as butanding, that had been stranded at the pier of the Philippine National Oil Co. (PNOC) in Mabini, ...

A huge oil spill shut down parts of Metro Manila's vital fishing industry yesterday, jeopardizing the livelihoods of tens of thousands of people living along Manila Bay's diesel coated coast. Dead fish floated on the water ...

Petron Corp. is taking responsibility for the massive oil spill in Rosario, Cavite last week. In a statement, Petron president Lubin Nepomuceno yesterday said the company also apologized for the damage caused by the oil ...

The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) yesterday resumed cleanup operations in eight villages in Rosario, Cavite affected by the oil spill caused by a leak from the submerged pipeline of Petron Corp. Four teams composed of 25 ...

Two dolphins and a sea turtle were found dead in this capital town’s coastal waters yesterday. One of the dolphins had three bullet wounds. Fernando de Guzman, chairman of the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management ...