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    • Oil spill damage estimate: ₱6.5M 

      Asutilla, Carine (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 25, 2013, on page A7)
      The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in Central Visayas has estimated that at least P6.5 million in damage compensation should be paid by those who would be held responsible for an oil spill that ...

    • Oil spill hastens deterioration of river 

      Cardinoza, Gabriel (Philippine Daily Inquirer, April 23, 2015, on page A6)
      The release of some 300 liters of oil from a capsized fishing boat into the Balincaguing River in Agno, Pangasinan, last week has alarmed local residents, who say it could happen again and hasten the river’s deterioration. ...

    • Oil spill hits Sorsogon villages 

      Jaucian, Michael B. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, November 14, 2017, on page A9)
      An oil spill, said to have come from a cargo vessel battered by strong winds as Tropical Storm “Salome” was crossing the Bicol region last week, had spread to at least 10 villages here, officials said. Mayor Manuel Fortes ...

    • Oil spill reaches barangays 

      Asutilla, Carine (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 20, 2013, on page A2)
      The oil leaking out of the St. Thomas of Aquinas, the passenger ferry that sank Friday evening off Talisay City after colliding with a cargo vessel, has reached five barangays (villages) of Cordova town. In a press release, ...

    • Oil spill threatens disaster in Mauritius 

      Reuters (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 10, 2020, on page A11)
      Fuel spilling from a Japanese bulk carrier that ran aground on a reef in Mauritius two weeks ago is creating an ecological disaster, endangering corals, fish and other marine life around the Indian Ocean island, officials ...

    • Oil spill-hit folk need aid, says mayor 

      Burgos, Nestor P. Jr. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, July 10, 2020, on page A7)
      As the number of residents evacuated from oil spill-affected areas reached more than a thousand, Mayor Jerry Treñas assailed the operator of the damaged power barge for failing to adequately provide for their needs. At a ...

    • Old man and the sea: Malaysian on a mission to rid beaches of glass 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Philippine Daily Inquirer, September 17, 2020, on page B5)
      A 74-year-old Malaysian man’s quest to rid the country’s beaches of washed-up glass led to a collection of thousands of bottles, now displayed in a colorful seaside museum. For the past 15 years, Tengku Mohamad Ali Mansor ...

    • Oldest captive gator a World War II survivor 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 15, 2020, on page A1-A8)
      Muja has lived through multiple bombing campaigns and several countries—all while never leaving a tiny pool in Belgrade’s zoo for 83 years, making him the world’s oldest captive alligator. While zookeepers don’t know his ...

    • Ondoy' upside: Why lake is till above critical level 

      Cinco, Maricar (Philippine Daily Inquirer, March 25, 2010, on page A11)
      While intense heat due to the El Niño weather phenomenon may be drying up the Laguna de Bay, the lake’s water level has not yet dropped to a critical reading because of too much rainwater dumped last year by Typhoons “Ondoy” ...

    • Onion supply shortage, fish importation due to crisis in governance 

      Mayuga, Ramon (Philippine Daily Inquirer, January 23, 2023, on page A7)
      This is in reaction to your editorial, “Desperation over onion,” (1/19/23). We were aghast at the magnitude of the “onion problem,” which has caused some farmers to lose their lives by committing suicide after incurring ...

    • Online seafood shop a welcome new wave 

      Aspiras, Reggie (Philippine Daily Inquirer, September 12, 2019, on page C3-C4)
      Delivered right at your doorstep, as you like it, is not how seafood is bought. But it’s what Marvin Jason Tan of Marvs Boqueria wants to keep his grandmom Maria Castro’s seafood stall in Arranque Market relevant in the ...

    • Onward to a more progressive Iloilo 

      Fernandez-Brojan, Connie (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 30, 2023, on page B3-2)
      Imagine this: business process outsourcing (BPO) companies are operating along the beaches. Food products are sourced from local farmlands that had been converted into Instagrammable tourism destinations. These are among ...

    • Operations start to remove ship from coral area 

      Padayhag, Michelle (Philippine Daily Inquirer, June 19, 2016, on page A12)
      Three tugboats were used to pull a Panamanian-registered cargo vessel out of a shoal where it ran aground and destroyed at least 3 hectares of coral reefs.

    • Opportunities emerge from rehab efforts 

      Burgos, Nestor Jr. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, January 13, 2014, on page A14)
      Communities in areas ravaged by Supertyphoon “Yolanda” in Western Visayas have started to pick up the pieces, but government planners, officials and business leaders are seeing difficulty in reaching full recovery. On the ...

    • Ornamental fish farmers: Aquaculture's next big trend? 

      (Philippine Daily Inquirer, June 7, 2015, on page B2-1)
      Fishkeeping—part art, part science—is now the world’s most popular hobby after photography. Globally valued at $15 billion and growing by 14 percent yearly, the ornamental fish trade is aquaculture’s sunrise industry. So ...

    • Oslob resumes whale shark watching but visitors still few 

      Israel, Dale G. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 7, 2020, on page A8)
      Whale shark watching in Oslob town in Cebu has resumed as the province reopened its doors to tourists in a bid to revive its struggling economy amid the new coronavirus disease pandemic. But from around 1,000 tourists, the ...

    • Otters find new playground on island in Tawi-Tawi 

      Alipala, Julie (Philippine Daily Inquirer, June 3, 2020, on page A10)
      They are known as “anjing laut,” the Malay word for “sea dogs,” in neighboring Sandakan, Sabah, according to Tawi-tawi residents who occasionally visit that part of Malaysia. But on Tawi-tawi’s Taganak Island, where the ...

    • Our big surprise in Tubbataha-diving with Destiny 

      Honasan, Alya B. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, July 2, 2016, on page F1-F2)
      It was a quintessential Tubbataha dive—volatile currents, tons of fish, and a big surprise. We were at Seafan Alley on Tubbataha’s North Atoll, making our way back to the shallows after some 40 minutes of spotting slender ...

    • Our vanishing 'galunggong' 

      Carpio, Antonio T. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, July 22, 2021, on page A6)
      Two months ago, I had a Zoom meeting with fisherfolk from Zambales who complained that their fish catch had been dwindling because huge Chinese trawlers have been scooping the fish in their traditional fishing grounds in ...

    • Outrage as Sino water cannon stops PH boats 

      Santos, Tina G.; Andrade, Jeannette I. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, November 19, 2021, on page A1-A3)
      The government on Thursday expressed outrage against China’s coast guard whose ships blocked and blasted with powerful jets of water two Filipino vessels carrying food and other supplies for a Marine detachment at a shoal ...