Browsing Manila Standard by Subject "deforestation"
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Act to transform climate
(Manila Standard,June 6, 2015 , on page A9)Last Wednesday, at the Kaminzimmer Conference Hall of the Bonn World Conference Center, the agreement on Climate Transformation 2015 or ACT 2015 hosted a side event where in our paper entitled "Getting specific on the 2015 ... -
Amazon could be gone in 50 years as it crosses threshold
(Manila Standard,March 13, 2020 , on page B3)The Amazon rain forest is nearing a threshold which, once crossed, would see one of the world’s largest and richest ecosystems morph into arid savannah within half-a-century, scientists said Tuesday. Another major ecosystem, ... -
Austalia failing to protect Great Barrier Reef, say activists
(Manila Standard,June 26, 2018 , on page B3)Australia is breaching commitments to protect the embattled Great Barrier Reef from the effects of land clearing, environmental groups claimed on Monday (June 25) and called on the UN to probe the alleged failures. Canberra ... -
Deforestation+climate change= dead and for wildlife
(Manila Standard,July 10, 2019 , on page A5)Climate change combined with galloping tropical deforestation is cutting off wildlife from life-saving cooler climes, heightening the risk of extinction, researchers said Monday. Less than two-fifths of forests across Latin ... -
Fighting climate change
(Manila Standard,February 12, 2018 , on page D11)Intense rainfall persisting over days, droughts threatening the farmlands and the farmers' livelihood, continuously rising sea levels and alarming flashfloods -- these are only some of the negative effects that the mankind ... -
Fighting climate change
(Manila Standard,June 5, 2018 , on page C2)Intense rainfall persisting over days, droughts threatening the farmlands and the farmers’ livelihood, continuously rising sea levels and alarming flashfloods – these are only some of the negative effects that the mankind ... -
Planting the seeds of environmental awareness
(Manila Standard,February 11, 2020 , on page F2)There’s no refuting the fact that trees are the source of life, whose value to Mother Earth cannot be denied. In the face of environmental degradation and massive deforestation, instilling the importance of trees and ...