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Can the DENR hack it?
This Sunday (Jan. 27) the Department of Environment and Natural Resources begins implementing a 10-year plan costing a whopping P42 billion to revive Manila Bay from decades of pollution and urban blight. You will recall ...
- January 22, 2019
Rehabilitation of rivers ensured
he heavily polluted Parañaque River and Estero Tripa de Gallina waters are flowing to rehabilitation efforts. This, after SM Prime Holdings Inc., led by its chairman Henry Sy Jr., in partnership with the Department of ...
- April 9, 2019
China's missiles 'can hit Manila in 7 minutes'
President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday confirmed that China is capable of sending guided missiles from the artificial islands in the West Philippine Sea to Manila in just seven minutes. Continuing his promised “lecture” on ...
- July 23, 2019
New Australian fish death
Thousands more fish have died in a key river system in drought-hit eastern Australia just weeks after up to a million were killed, authorities and locals said Monday, sparking fears an ecological disaster is unfolding. ...
- January 29, 2019
3k cu m of trash silt in Bay rehab
The Metro Manila Development Authority announced on Wednesday it has collected at total of 3,018 cubic meters of rubbish and silt from Roxas Boulevard and waterways as part of the Manila Bay Rehabilitation project in nearly ...
- May 23, 2019
Tongue in a cheek
Called out for his remarks on how difficult it was to determine the exclusivity of the country’s exclusive economic zone in the West Philippine Sea because “it’s under water,” Senate President Vicente Sotto III last week ...
- July 1, 2019
Chinese CG blocks PH ship on supply mission
Malacañang on Monday said it is “objectionable” that a Chinese Coast Guard ship had blocked local vessels on a resupply mission to the Philippine Navy’s BRP Sierra Madre in Ayungin Shoal west of Palawan. The Chinese ship ...
- September 24, 2019
DILG to create Bora-like task force in Bay rehab
Interior and Local Government Secretary Eduardo Año said on Thursday that they plan to duplicate the rehabilitation of Boracay for the cleanup of Manila Bay, which officially starts on Jan. 27. To kick off the Manila Bay ...
- January 11, 2019
Closed fishing seasons violators detected
Illegal fishing activities thrive in the Visayan Sea during the enforcement of the three-month closed fishing season, lawyer Gloria Estenzo Ramos, vice president of Oceana Philippines said over the weekend. Oceana, the ...
- February 25, 2019
Shark refuge found in Galapagos
A new breeding ground for endangered hammerhead sharks has been found in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador's government said. This natural refuge off the island of Santa Cruz is home to about 20 of the sharks, the environment ...
- March 9, 2019