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It will take years to clean up Manila Bay
It took six months to clean up Boracay’s waters. It will take seven years to clean up Manila Bay until it becomes as clean as in Boracay today, Secretary of Agriculture Emmanuel Pinol said in a radio interview this week. ...
- January 18, 2019
Company that dumped medical waste into sea faces suspension
The Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in Central Visayas recommended to EMB-Manila the suspension of the operation of the Davao City Environmental Care, ...
- January 18, 2019
Mayors have key role in Bay rehabilitation
The Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) called a meeting last Monday of mayors of Metro Manila and other towns and cities in the provinces around Manila Bay as part of the total effort to clean it up after ...
- February 15, 2019
Manila Bay clean-up: Gargantuan and historic endeavor
In a word, Manila Bay stinks. Decades-long inflow of waste and untreated discharges into the Bay has resulted in one of the most polluted waters in the world. (Manila is also unlucky in having lazy mayors who have done ...
- January 30, 2019
Thriving corals boost hope for Manila Bay
Corals are still thriving in a few areas of Manila Bay – in Maragondon and Ternate, Cavite, and in Corregidor and Carballo islands at the mouth of the bay, the Ecosystems Research and Development Bureau of the Department ...
- June 30, 2019
Step up bay cleanup as it continues to draw people
Baseco beach in Tondo, Manila, was filled with thousands of Manilans on Easter Sunday, out to enjoy even just a few minutes of wading in the cool waters of the bay on a specially hot summer day. They can no longer do this ...
- April 24, 2019
Study: Corals still thriving in Manila Bay; three things needed to bring murky bay to life
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has released the results of the vulnerability assessment for the Manila Bay rehabilitation project, which identified areas where the government and other stakeholders ...
- June 26, 2019
Manila Bay can be saved
In the United States, the Federal Clean Water Act (CWA) mandates all states to adopt water quality standards that would define how much of pollutants can be in the water such that it might meet the minimum threshold for ...
- February 23, 2019
All hands on deck to save the Manila Bay!
ANGEL THOUGHTS ‘The only things you can take with you when you go on your final journey are the things packed in your heart. So start packing!’ The US side of the majestic Niagara Falls has frozen over, thanks to a snowstorm. ...
- January 27, 2019
Manila Bay reclamation opposed
Residents of Baseco compound in Tondo, along with fisherfolk and environmental groups, marched to Manila City Hall Monday morning to protest the four Manila Bay reclamation projects that have allegedly been approved by ...
- February 19, 2019