Browsing SunStar Philippines by Subject "environmental degradation"

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    • Cebu officials probe dolomite mining for Manila Bay rehab 

      JJL (SunStar Philippines, September 5, 2020, on page 2)
      The Cebu Provincial Government has launched a probe into a Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) pronouncement that crushed dolomite boulders from Cebu were being used to fill up Manila Bay’s 500-meter ...

    • China denies incursion as 200 ships dock at Phil reef 

      Associated Press (AP) (SunStar Philippines, March 23, 2021, on page 14)
      Bad weather prompted more than 200 Chinese fishing vessels to anchor at a reef claimed by the Philippines, Beijing said on Monday (Mar 22), sidestepping accusations from Manila of a move by China's vast South China Sea ...

    • Dolomite extraction, transport to Manila 'aboveboard' 

      JKV (SunStar Philippines, September 6, 2020, on page 3)
      The Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) 7 issued permits to allow the transport of 3,000 metric tons of processed dolomite, or “white sand,” that was dumped on the shoreline of the Manila Bay earlier this week. MGB 7 Director ...

    • Impact of human activities to freshwater ecosystem: The case of the Camiling River, Tarlac 

      Abella, Albert A. (SunStar Philippines, December 10, 2022, on page 6)
      The Philippines is rich in terms of biodiversity. The Philippines are surrounded with different bodies of water, fresh, estuarine, and marine water which are very rich in terms of fishes and water plants from Luzon, Visayas, ...