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    • Sabah, WPS to be printed on PH passports 

      Gascon, Melvin (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 22, 2020, on page A3)
      A committee in the House of Representatives has approved the substitute bill that requires the printing of the country’s map, including its 320-kilometer exclusive economic zone and Sabah, on the pages of Philippine ...

    • Salvage of US Navy ship to start 

      Tubeza, Philip C.; Dizon, Nikko (Philippine Daily Inquirer, February 17, 2013, on page A2)
      The US Navy minesweeper USS Guardian, which is stuck in the Tubbataha Reef in Palawan, will be “chopped up” beginning Monday, a ranking Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) officer said on Saturday. PCG Palawan District commander ...

    • Sampaloc Lake clean-up mired in controversy 

      Mallari, Delfin T. Jr. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, March 3, 2000, on page 15)
      Some 7,000 city residents on Tuesday proclaimed the start of a multisectoral campaign to save Sampaloc Lake from extinction. Students, teachers, senior citizens, government officials and employees, and religious members ...

    • San Pablo wakes up to 7-lakes challenge 

      Cinco, Maricar (Philippine Daily Inquirer, February 6, 2014, on page A7)
      The city government of San Pablo, where the seven interconnected lakes in Laguna are found, cried foul over a recent declaration by an international group that its volcanic lakes are facing an “advancing destruction” caused ...

    • Sandbar outing turns tragic as 4 drown in Cadiz City 

      Gomez, Carla (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 30, 2022, on page A8)
      Four persons, two of them minors, died after they drowned at the Kabilang-Bilangan Reef in Barangay Sicaba of Cadiz City, Negros Occidental province, on Sunday. Marlyn Aguirre, 33; her son Mack John, 15; and neighbors ...

    • Sarangani town launches dive tourism program 

      (Philippine Daily Inquirer, May 4, 2021, on page C6)
      Scuba divers will have more options in exploring the undiscovered marine world of southern Mindanao with the recent launch of the dive tourism program of Glan, Sarangani. Held during the town’s annual Mahin Festival, the ...

    • Sardine makers won't recall price hike request 

      Lagare, Jordeene (Philippine Daily Inquirer, October 25, 2022, on page A4)
      Canned sardine manufacturers won’t take back their earlier request to raise the price ceiling on their products as their input cost continues to shoot up due to rising fuel prices and the weakening of the peso against the ...

    • Save Manila Bay 

      Papa, Joey C. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, July 18, 2018, on page A11)
      As a young boy, small pail in hand, I would gather mussels, shore crabs (which I knew as talangka), and fish along the breakwall of Manila Bay on Roxas Boulevard, for my family’s meal. I imagined myself like the fishermen ...

    • Save planet Earth but destroy the ocean? 

      Christiansen, Sabine; Unger, Sebastian (Philippine Daily Inquirer, December 26, 2020, on page A7)
      As recent studies and assessments indicate, the world is still able to change course in the face of this threat, if major pressures—including climate change—are mitigated and marine ecosystems restored. But a new risk is ...

    • Save the Irrawaddy dolphins of Iloilo and Guimaras Strait from extinction 

      (Philippine Daily Inquirer, November 20, 2020, on page A7)
      Irrawady dolphins (Orcaella brevirostris) are air-breathing mammals that live in the sea. They are grey to slate blue in color that gets lighter on the underbelly. They do not have pronounced snout like other dolphins and ...

    • Saved from Peru oil spill, birds and penguins nursed back to health 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Philippine Daily Inquirer, February 8, 2022, on page B6)
      Hand fed fish and given gentle yet rigorous baths, penguins and other sea birds are slowly regaining their strength at s Peruvian zoo after a major oil spill that claimed many of their friends. Of about 150 oil-stained ...

    • Saving 'tawilis': BFAR revives fishing ban bid 

      Ocampo, Karl R.; Chiu, Patricia Denise M. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, January 27, 2019, on page A6)
      The government is scrambling to save the popular tawilis which was recently declared an endangered species by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources director ...

    • Saving newborns, doing fish census: PH scientists just want their stories told. 

      Agoncillo, Jodee A. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, June 3, 2018, on page A6)
      On June 20, the UP system and the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) will do just that in the first Agham Bayan, a science, technology and innovation festival at the Philippine International Convention Center in ...

    • Saving Siargao, the paradise of my childhood 

      Mondoñedo, Aziza N. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, June 2, 2018, on page D1-D4)
      Everyone wants a glimpse of paradise. I had mine at six years old. My maternal grandparents are from the south. My parents would frequent the place when I was little. We were able to secure property on a remote island, and ...

    • Saving turtles by saving their nesting sites 

      Mascariñas, Erwin (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 5, 2018, on page A6)
      One of the most fascinating facts about sea turtles is that they have unusually sharp memories, according to experts. So they would return again and again to the place where turtles hundreds of years before them hatched ...

    • SC asked to clarify ruling on Manila Bay 

      Dizon, Nikko (Philippine Daily Inquirer, July 27, 2011, on page A1)
      A militant fisherfolk group asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to issue a legal opinion on whether its order for a cleanup of the Manila Bay would involve strictly the rehabilitation of the bay or also include reclamation ...

    • SC asked to inhibit Carpio from WPS case 

      Aning, Jerome (Philippine Daily Inquirer, June 29, 2019, on page A5)
      The Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) on Thursday filed a motion asking the Supreme Court to inhibit Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio from participating in a writ of kalikasan petition seeking to compel the ...

    • SC sides with dolphins, strikes down oil deal 

      Quismundo, Tarra (Philippine Daily Inquirer, April 22, 2015, on page A4)
      For the sake of endangered dolphins, whales and other marine mammals, the Supreme Court yesterday struck down as unconstitutional, a deal between the Department of Energy (DOE) and a Japanese firm for oil “exploration, ...

    • Scientist may name cute pink octopus 'adorabilis' 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Philippine Daily Inquirer, June 19, 2015, on page A25)
      Some say she looks like a ghost from the PacMan video game, but she's anything but spooky. In fact, the fist-sized pink octopus is so cute scientists may call her Opisthoteuthis adorabilis. Researchers in California are ...

    • Scientists explore deepest trough in the Caribbean Sea on Nautilus 

      Associated Press (AP) (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 24, 2013, on page A19)
      The man whose research team discovered the wreckage of the Titanic has now turned his attention to the deepest trough of the Caribbean Sea. Dr. Robert Ballard was aboard a 211-foot (64-meter) research vessel with dozens ...