Browsing Philippine Daily Inquirer by Subject "deforestation"

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    • Brazil scientists fear golden mussel threat to Amazon River 

      Associated Press (AP) (Philippine Daily Inquirer, February 6, 2015, on page A25)
      The world’s mightiest waterway, the Amazon River, is threatened by the most diminutive of foes — a tiny mussel invading from China. Since hitching its way to South America in the early 1990s, the golden mussel has claimed ...

    • Climate change signals Earth in danger zone 

      (Philippine Daily Inquirer, January 17, 2015, on page A23)
      Climate change and high rates of extinctions of animals and plants are pushing the Earth into a danger zone for humanity, a scientific report card about mankind’s impact on nature said on Thursday. An international team ...

    • Fortifying Boracay's green line of defense: the 'bakawan' 

      Lalu, Gabriel Pabico (Philippine Daily Inquirer, July 1, 2018, on page A6)
      Known worldwide for its powdery white beaches and lately, for its polluted waters and six-month closure to tourists, Boracay Island holds another secret that has been a virtual lifesaver to its marine life: the mangrove ...

    • Haribon completes training course to protect Naujan Lake 

      (Philippine Daily Inquirer, March 13, 2017, on page A14)
      Environmental group Haribon Foundation had launched its Biodiversity Fellows Program, a training course for local leaders and environmental officers in towns surrounding the biodiversity-rich Naujan Lake National Park in ...

    • Man's ruin pushes 7,000 species to the brink 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Philippine Daily Inquirer, July 20, 2019, on page A7)
      Mankind’s destruction of nature is driving species to the brink of extinction at an “unprecedented” rate, the leading wildlife conservation body warned on Thursday as it added more than 7,000 animals, fish and plants to ...

    • MWSS: More trees in watersheds lessen turbidity 

      (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 25, 2018, on page A9)
      The Metropolitan Waterworks Sewerage System (MWSS) has called for a sustainable integrated watershed management program in the wake of the increase in the turbidity level of raw water in Ipo dam, which affected water supply ...

    • Radical goals for sustainable development 

      Unmuessig, Barbara (Philippine Daily Inquirer, January 5, 2015, on page A11)
      Let us imagine for a moment that we could change the world according to our wishes. Dramatic economic inequality gives way to social and political inclusion. Universal human rights become a reality. We end deforestation ...

    • What is a watershed? 

      Juanico, Meliton (Philippine Daily Inquirer, April 11, 2017, on page A11)
      If our country is practically a system of prominent watersheds totaling 421 in all, we need to know how to use the watershed properly and not merely say, for instance, that some mines should be closed because they are ...