Browsing The Manila Times by Subject "Scientific personnel"
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3 more states to do research in PH Rise
(The Manila Times,January 26, 2018 , on page A1-A7)China is not the only country whose application to conduct research on the resource-rich Benham Rise the Philippines has approved, Malacañang said on Thursday. The government has also allowed the US, Japan and South Korea ... -
Authors launch book on coastal plants
(The Manila Times,November 9, 2018 , on page A6)Two authors and scientists will launch an environmental book Beach Forest Species and Mangrove Associates in the Philippines at the Camiña Balay nga Bato in Arevalo District in Friday of November 16, 2012, to graced by ... -
Climate Change threatens local aquaculture industry, says scientist
(The Manila Times,October 2, 2015 , on page Retrieved from-http://www.manilatimes.net)Rising water temperatures as a result of climate change could threaten the country's aquaculture industry and fish production in general, a scientist based in Iloilo province on Friday. "There is a threat to aquaculture ... -
Climate scientist debunks ‘sea level rise alarm,’ UN climate agenda crumbling
(The Manila Times,December 14, 2018 , on page A4)Many Filipinos have bought the climate change (global warming) dogma for two key reasons: First, they swallowed the claim of sea level rise, and they got scared by the thought that the Philippines as a Pacific island nation ... -
Commercial fishing allowed in Philippine Rise — Duterte
(The Manila Times,May 17, 2018 , on page A2)On board BRP Davao del Sur: President Rodrigo Duterte said he would still allow but “strictly” enforce commercial fishing in the Philippine Rise (Benham Rise) after he proclaimed the 13-million hectare undersea region a ... -
Earth Day 2019: Protect our species
(The Manila Times,April 22, 2019 , on page B4)Scientists point this massive decline to habitat destruction, exploitation and climate change as the driving forces for the loss of half of the world’s wild animal population. On to marine life, more than 650,000 marine ... -
Great barrier reef gets biggest coral re-seeding
(The Manila Times,November 29, 2018 , on page B6)Scientists have launched the largest-ever attempt to regenerate coral on the endangered Great Barrier Reef by harvesting millions of the creatures’ eggs and sperm during their annual spawning. The researchers said Wednesday ... -
Japan sets 2-yr microplastics survey in coastal areas
(The Manila Times,January 30, 2020 , on page B6)Scientists will begin a two-year survey of microplastics in the coastal waters off Japan from April, a research group announced on Wednesday, with concern growing about the impact of plastics on the oceans. The survey ... -
New SEAFDEC division chief sworn into office
(The Manila Times,July 30, 2012 , on page A7)Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala has recently sworn in Dr. Felix Ayson, as the new chief of the Aquaculture Department (AQD) of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC), in Tigbauan, Iloilo. Ayson ... -
PH scientist, researchers convene
(The Manila Times,March 21, 2016 , on page B6)Members of the Department of Science and Technology-National Research Council of the Philippines (DOST-NRCP) - scientists, engineers, social scientists, and researchers of various academic fields - will convene on March ... -
President to sail to PH Rise for plateau research
(The Manila Times,May 9, 2018 , on page A1-A7)President Rodrigo Duterte will set foot in the Philippine (Benham) Rise next week to send off 50 scientists who will conduct research in the area, Malacañang said on Tuesday. The Philippine Rise is an underwater plateau ... -
Protein that protects DNA from radiation discovered
(The Manila Times,October 4, 2016 , on page B6)In a breakthrough discovery, researchers in Japan have discovered a protein from micro-animals known as tardigrades, or "water bears," that can protect human DNA from high levels of radiation. The scientists, who published ... -
S. Asia most dangerous for sea turtles - study
(The Manila Times,September 30, 2011 , on page A6)The waters around India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are home to the world’s most endangered sea turtles, according to a study released Thursday aimed at setting a blueprint for global conservation. While it was well known ... -
Scientists sound alarm over ocean acidification
(The Manila Times,October 9, 2014 , on page B6)Ocean acidification has risen by a quarter since pre-industrial times as a result of rising carbon emissions, casting a shadow over the seas as a future source of food, scientists warned on Wednesday. In the past two ... -
Scientists to revive extinct giant Galapagos tortoises
(The Manila Times,June 19, 2013 , on page B7)Scientists will try to revive two species of giant Galapagos tortoises thought to have been extinct by breeding genetic relatives in captivity, experts leading the effort said. The Galapagos Islands, located 1,000 kilometers ... -
Seaweed can become a major food source
(The Manila Times,March 21, 2019 , on page B5)Scientists at a university in Japan have decoded the genome of the popular brown seaweed ito-mozuku (Nemacystus decipiens), providing data that could someday be critical to local farmers along the tropical coastline of ... -
Why invest more in R&D
(The Manila Times,January 26, 2018 , on page B5)From what I have observed in the country, much of the R&D efforts have not resulted in leveling up Philippine agriculture, which still remains largely unmechanized, suffering from low productivity, and has very little value ...