Browsing Panay News by Place "Australia"
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AFP: Chinese 'fishermen' used vs PH in two ways
(Panay News,September 16, 2023 , on page 9-15)When they are not directly supporting the China Coast Guard (CCG) in blocking supplies to a key Philippine outpost in the West Philippine Sea (WPS), the Chinese maritime militia (CMM) posing as fishermen are harming the ... -
Australia fights UN downgrade of Great Barrier Reef health
(Panay News,June 23, 2021 , on page 7)Australia said Tuesday it will fight against plans to downgrade the Great Barrier Reef’s World Heritage status due to climate change, while environmentalists have applauded the United Nations (UN) World Heritage Committee’s ... -
Australia plans Chinese naval exercise in disputed seas
(Panay News,October 30, 2015 , on page 11)Australia said it would continue scheduled live-fire naval exercises with China, even after close ally the United States sent a warship into disputed South China Sea waters this week. On Tuesday, Washington sent its USS ... -
Australia, PH renew stronger AANR ties
(Panay News,August 29, 2020 , on page 8)The governments of Australia and the Philippines have partnered anew for a stronger agricultural research and development (R&D) efforts. This development came after Dr. Reynaldo V. Ebora, Executive Director of the Philippine ... -
BFAR helps boost salt production in Antique
(Panay News,October 20, 2023 , on page 14)The Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (DA-BFAR), through the Development of Salt Industry Project (DSIP), has been helping boost salt output in this province as its 15 coastal municipalities ... -
Bleaching 'killing' Great Barrier Reef
(Panay News,May 31, 2016 , on page 11)At least 35 percent of corals in the northern and central parts of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef have been destroyed by bleaching, Australian scientists say. The experts from James Cook University ( JCU) say it is the ... -
Coral islands in Australia at risk of disappearing - study
(Panay News,December 19, 2023 , on page 10)More than a dozen of the coral islands that mark Australia's maritime boundaries are at risk of disappearing, a study has found. Multiple stresses including rising sea levels threaten their existence. Their disappearance ... -
DA, BFAR urged to revitalize salt industry in Antique
(Panay News,September 12, 2022 , on page 16-15)A member of the Provincial Board here has urged the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) and t he Department of Agriculture (DA) to revitalize the salt i ndustry i n the province. Board member Victor Condez ... -
Food chain collapse predicted in oceans
(Panay News,October 14, 2015 , on page 8)The world's oceans are teeming with life, but rising carbon dioxide emissions could cause a collapse in the marine food chain from the top down, researchers in Australia said. Marine ecologists from the University of ... -
Great Barrier Reef suffers third mass bleaching
(Panay News,March 27, 2020 , on page 11)Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has suffered another mass bleaching event – the third in just five years. Warmer sea temperatures –particularly in February – are feared to have caused huge coral loss across the world’s ... -
Heat waves 'cook' corals at Great Barrier Reef
(Panay News,April 20, 2018 , on page 12)Prolonged ocean warming events, known as marine heatwaves, take a significant toll on the complex ecosystem of the Great Barrier Reef. This is according to a new study on the impacts of the 2016 marine heatwave, published ... -
Iloilo Declaration presses marine pollution reduction
(Panay News,November 28, 2018 , on page 2)ILOILO City – East Asian countries will pledge to reduce marine pollution. It is one of the key items in the “Iloilo Ministerial Declaration on East Asian Region, Moving as One to Secure Healthy Oceans, People and Economies”, ... -
In South Africa, great white sharks threatened
(Panay News,August 24, 2016 , on page 13)On the edge of a boat off this coastal village, Michael Rutzen stubs his cigarette into a soda can and stares pensively out to sea. He has free-dived with great white sharks for nearly 20 years, and he never known it to ... -
PH hailed as world's leading dive, beach destination
(Panay News,November 17, 2022 , on page 21-23)The Philippines has been hailed the World’s Leading Dive Destination and the World’s Leading Beach Destination for 2022 at the 29th World Travel Awards Grand Final Gala Ceremony held in Muscat, Oman, recently. “These global ... -
Sea turtle nests at risk from climate change, says study
(Panay News,July 24, 2015 , on page 9)Rising sea levels from climate change are a threat to sea turtle populations as eggs laid on beaches become submerged in salt water, Australian scientists said Thursday. Eggs buried by female turtles in usually "high and ... -
US urges response to China's fortification
(Panay News,May 18, 2019 , on page 8)A senior United States naval officer encouraged Southeast Asian nations to respond to China's military expansion in the South China Sea. US naval operations chief Admiral John Richardson on Thursday called on Australian ... -
Will Iloilo City sink or swim?: Treñas skeptical of study on rising sea levels
(Panay News,November 12, 2019 , on page 1-15)“Things like that should not be immediately accepted by anyone.” This is Mayor Jerry Treñas’ reaction to a report about this city possibly disappearing by 2050 due to rising sea levels. The study was conducted by Climate ...