Browsing Manila Standard by Subject "environmental impact"
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Arctic animals cope with climate change
(Manila Standard,September 2, 2015 , on page B8)When it comes to coping with climate change in the Arctic region, which is warming at three times the global average, some animals are more equal than others. Migrating Barnacle geese that fly north to lay eggs amid the ... -
Bantay Dagat volunteers get a benefactor
(Manila Standard,August 3, 2015 , on page C-4)For the past 11 years, First Gen Corporation has been quietly helping protect the fragile ecosystem of the Verde Island passage which has been recognized as the center of the world's marine biodiversity. Unknown to many, ... -
China urged to answer for ecological damage
(Manila Standard,July 3, 2015 , on page A4)Malacañang urged China on Thursday to take responsibility and answer for the impact of its reclamation activities in disputed waters in the West Philippine Sea in line with its agreement with the Association of Southeast ... -
Cimatu insists dolomite poses no health risk
(Manila Standard,September 10, 2020 , on page A1)Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu has defended at the House of Representatives the use of dolomite white sand from Cebu’s crushed dolomite rocks to transform Manila Bay’s shoreline into a white-sand beach. He told legislators ... -
DENR asked to probe billionaire’s Palawan structures
(Manila Standard,June 15, 2020 , on page B4)A Puerto Princesa City-based non-government organization asked the Department of Environment and Natural Resources to investigate the alleged use and occupation of untitled lands in areas under the Malampaya Sound Protected ... -
DENR violated laws in ’beach’ project—Oceana
(Manila Standard,September 7, 2020 , on page A2)Authorities violated several laws when they dumped crushed dolomite on a 500-meter stretch of the Manila Bay's naturally gray shoreline in Manila to make it appear like white sand, environmental group Oceana Philippines ... -
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 ... -
Good work by Duterte on climate change
(Manila Standard,February 4, 2017 , on page A5)This has been a good week for climate change in the Philippines. Finally, after months of uncertainty, the Philippine government has decided to move forward on the ratification of the Paris Agreement. This was decided in ... -
Handline fishing docks eyed in Benham
(Manila Standard,March 19, 2018 , on page A6)Handline tuna fishing could improve in a big way the living standards of marginal families in the coastal communities around the region, according to Atienza, the senior deputy minority leader. Atienza earlier urged ... -
Iloilo Declaration for healthy oceans
(Manila Standard,December 4, 2018 , on page A4)Confidence, optimism and determination reigned in Iloilo City last Thursday, 29 November 2018, as the 2018 East Asian Seas Congress concluded. After three days of events and sessions that brought together various ocean ... -
Manila Bay cleanup
(Manila Standard,January 31, 2019 , on page A4)The cleanup was led by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, with similar efforts to be exerted in Pampanga, Bulacan, Nueva Ecija, Bataan in Region III, and Cavite in Region IV-A. To maintain cleanliness, ...