Browsing The Manila Times by Place "Africa"
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Asean water security concerns: Focus on the Mekong River
(The Manila Times,July 23, 2022 , on page A4)Conflicts over water are ancient. According to the US-based Pacific Institute which specializes in water policy, water conflict appears to have occurred for the first time 4,500 years ago when a king named Urlama diverted ... -
Choking air, melting glaciers changing India
(The Manila Times,November 18, 2015 , on page C4)India’s landscapes are changing – from the melt in the Himalayas, to the increasingly arid farm belts in the middle and the stunning coasts where fishermen talk of rising, warmer seas eroding their shores. “Changes in sea ... -
Global warming threatens jewels of nature and civilization
(The Manila Times,December 10, 2015 , on page A6)A warming climate is one of the principal menaces to the dazzling, 2,300-kilometer coral reef system off the coast of northeastern Australia known as the Great Barrier Reef. Home to thousands of species of fish and other ... -
High seas treaty on allocating fish across jurisdiction
(The Manila Times,June 11, 2022 , on page A4)On Dec. 24, 2017, the UN General Assembly voted to convene a multi-year process to develop a treaty on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity, now referred to as the Treaty on Biodiversity in ...