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Mangroves vs climate change
Over 1,000 mangroves seedlings were planted at the reforestation area in barangay Parian Oeste in Buang, La Union, Wednesday afternoon, in a bid to combat the ill effects of climate change. The activity was a joint undertaking ...
- August 8, 2014
The battle to clean up Manila Bay finally underway
The “Battle for Manila Bay” will be won in seven years, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) said Monday. Seven years is such a long time. It is six and a half years longer than it took to clean up ...
- January 31, 2019
Manila Bay's water quality improving a year after rehab
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) said water quality of major outfalls directly draining to Manila Bay significantly improved, a year after the previously polluted watershed started to be rehabilitated. ...
- January 25, 2020
Target arrivals for Boracay to be revised
The Department of Tourism (DOT) will revise its target for tourist arrivals for Boracay in Aklan. DOT Western Visayas Director Helen Catalbas said the target for this year and onward will be anchored on the update carrying ...
- April 23, 2018
PH needs foreign help in solving plastic pollution
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) should address the plastic pollution in the country by seeking help from other nations that have the technology to solve it. This was pointed out by Surigao del ...
- June 21, 2018
President zooms in on bay pollution problem
Shortly after he was handed the job of cleaning up Manila Bay, Secretary Roy Cimatu of Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) said it would take at least ten years to do it. He had just accomplished the ...
- January 21, 2020
DENR urged: clarify boracay sewage policy
Stakeholders at Boracay in Aklan are calling on the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to clarify its directive compelling resorts and hotels to install their own sewage treatment plant (STPs).“We have ...
- August 24, 2018
Negros ethanol plant suspended over fishkill
Environment authorities suspended the operations of an ethanol plant of Universal Robina Sugar Milling Corp. (URSMC) after finding that its untreated wastewater caused fishkill that economically dislocated 200 fishing ...
- August 13, 2015
DENR firming up Boracay environmental protection
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) will strictly enforce environmental rules and guidelines as the dry run for the reopening of famed Boracay Island gets underway on Monday. DENR Secretary Roy Cimatu ...
- October 14, 2018
Guidebook on coral reef protection launched
Local government units (LGUs) and fisherfolk in the Philippines, which encompasses the Coral Triangle Region, known as the world's center of marine biodiversity, will find a useful guide to monitor marine protection in a ...
- July 1, 2010