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WWF joins 'sea-tizens' in saving seas
The daylong event highlighted the need to be mindful of the products we buy, the advocacies we champion, plus the lessons we teach our children. WWF’s Environment Education (EE) unit taught kids about conserving dolphins, ...
- May 10, 2016
'Plant bamboo, mangroves'
Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Regina Lopez has told small-scale miners and local officials of Camarines Norte that small-scale mining needs to stop for now and encouraged them instead to plant bamboo and ...
- December 14, 2016
Filipina leads protection of Lanuza marine park
Marybeth “Yeng” Rita has taken on the challenge to be a woman of influence in a male-dominated industry as a Coastal Resources Management (CRM) officer of the local government of Lanuza, Surigao del Sur. A CRM officer since ...
- March 29, 2016
$1M conservation fund established for Palawan area
Established by Conservation International’s (CI) Global Conservation Fund (GCF), the fund ensures conservation efforts can continue across the 120,000-hectare landscape, Palawan’s largest terrestrial protected area, the ...
- October 13, 2016
Melting Greenland ice threatens to expose Cold War waste
A network of tunnels under the snow contained everything from research facilities to a hospital, a cinema and a church — all powered by a small, portable nuclear reactor. The pollutants left behind include PCBs used in ...
- September 27, 2016
Coordinating body for PH marine ecosystem pushed
A De La Salle University (DLSU) professor proposes the establishment of a coordinating body in the Philippines that will make sure coastal ecosystems in the country are healthy in order to help combat the effects of climate ...
- May 10, 2016
China ship pays $29M for reef disaster
The owners of a Chinese ship that ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef in 2010 agreed to pay Australia Aus$39. 3 million ($29.6 million) on Monday, in a settlement dismissed by conservationists as "woefully inadequate." ...
- September 20, 2016
A call to protect La Union's seas and 'pawikan'
Tina Antonio of La Union Soul Movement joined “SOS: Save the Seas Coastival”—dubbed the green alternative to the famous “LaBoracay” Labor Day weekend in Boracay—but she was not there for the sea breeze, fresh seafood and ...
- May 17, 2016
Fish parasites may prevent human intake of heavy metals - study
A common type of fish parasite can prevent the accumulation of heavy metals from pollution in the fish’s tissues, making the fish safer for humans to eat, a study by the Institute of Biological Sciences of the University ...
- October 20, 2016
Climate-oriented dev't to save millions from poverty
More than 100 million people from Asia Pacific countries including the Philippines may fall into extreme poverty by 2030 without climate-oriented development in the region, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission ...
- December 2, 2016